Today on Velshi, we now know the FBI recovered dozens of empty folders marked classified from Mar-a-Lago.

So where in the world are all the documents that should have been in the folders?

We're going to have the latest on the churning Trump investigation.

Plus how Michigan Republicans are trying and so far succeeding at blocking a statewide vote on whether to proceed on protecting abortion rights.

And Representative Stacey Plaskett, the former impeachment manager, former prosecutor, and former

Justice Department official is here.

She'll join me right here in the studio, later in the show.

Republicans who do not worship at the altar of their twice-impeached ex-deer leader are

subject to ridicule threats and

worse. But they actually do exist. And President Biden's sweeping soul of the nation's speech

was inflected with hope and optimism on that point. So where are these mainstream Republicans?

And can they get organized enough to help a president from the other side save democracy?

Two of the smartest and bravest of these team normal Republicans, join me later in the show

with those answers and more. Velshi starts now.

Good morning. It's Saturday, September the 3rd. Happy Labor Day weekend. I'm Ali Valshi this morning.

We're left with more questions than answers just a day after a federal judge unsealed a highly detailed inventory of items that were seized from Mara Lago early last month.

The court filing revealed that the FBI found 48 empty folders with classified markings on them inside the former president's

office and storage area at the Florida Golf Club. Government officials are also now wondering if the

U.S. government has actually recovered the full scope of important documents from Donald Trump

or whether many of them remain missing posing a further threat to national security.

All this is we await a decision from a judge as to whether she will grant Donald Trump's request for something called a special

master, an independent third-party review of what was seized from Mara Lago. NBC's Monica Alba is

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