iowa usually democrats and independents could show up on caucus day and show their party affiliation and participate the new law here allows the republican party to require folks to have registered as republican weeks in advance here, folks like jody and dennis, they ll be out there and they re going to be the republicans saying we need to take the party in a new direction if donald trump is to be pushed off his post here. vaughn, thank you very much for your reporting. still ahead on morning joe, spain is the women s world cup champion for the first time. we ll have the highlights from yesterday s title match. plus, new reporting on how president biden is planning to respond to wednesday night s republican primary debate in milwaukee. also ahead, an update on recovery efforts in maui as the president travels to hawaii today.
years our take on donald trump s claim that he was the apple of russian president vladimir putin s eye. we ve got a lot to get to this morning including trump s decision on whether or not he ll attend wednesday s republican presidential primary debate. we ll show you how his gop rivals are responding. meanwhile, the former president has until friday to surrender to authorities in fulton county, georgia. we ll have more on the possible timeline with that. also ahead, the latest on the life-threatening storm hitting southern california, prompting a state of emergency from the governor. and we ll have an update on the recovery efforts in maui ahead of president joe biden s visit to hawaii later today. a lot to get to on this monday morning. welcome to morning joe. it s monday, august 21st. and with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay doing way too