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florida, and it could be the most expensive natural disaster unlike anything that anyone alive today has ever experienced. >> top of the hour. hello, everybody. im cade ballian in for pamela brown and youre live in the cnn "newsroom." >> tonight growing concerns and calls for more answers over what the fbi recovered during their search of former president donald trumps mar-a-lago resort. people want a congressional briefing and damage assessment now after the justice department remaine...

♪ ♪ for many americans, mount rushmore is one of the countrys most patriotic and awe-inspiring symbols, like a giant apple pie wrapped in a kid rock t-shirt, yee-ha. but for others, its a reminder that this country was intended to be whites only. as we talk about the removal of controversial monuments and statues, mount rushmore is a part of that. located in the black hills of western south dakota, its become the epicenter in a battle over who are the rightful inhabitants and car...

Reclaim their culture an their land. heres a preview. >> so talk about what is the goal of the land back movement. >> its simple. land back is about reclaiming indigenous land and getting land back no indigenous hands and to reclaim everything stolen from us when we were forcefully removed. >> a huge part of the land back movement has a strong prellies around dismantling white supremacy because all these systems that have been put in place that made it possible for the stealing of our land is th...

Place that made it possible for the stealing of our land is the very systems that are in place to make it possible keep our lands from us to this day. >> we were fully thriving city economists and societies and economies precolonization. so all of who we are, our spirituality, our culture, our language, our life ways, our ceremonies, but also, our kinship systems, our governance systems, education, health care, housing, food systems are all based on this land right here. so landback is that. its...

>> i think our people, just because we are raised here, we have a genealogical connection to this landscape, the oceans and waters, that we knew better. >> how did you get pulled into this? >> through just growing up here. this is my backyard. and growing up seeing this other system, this foreign system that doesnt acknowledge that we have, doesnt acknowledge our life ways, thats what led me to go to school and get my degree and get back into the communities and help have those voices heard. if ...

Because we are raised here, we have a geneological connection to this landscape, the oceans and waters, that we knew better. >> how did you get pulled into this. >> through just growing up here. this is my backyard. and growing up seeing this other system, this foreign system that doesnt acknowledge that we have, doesnt acknowledge our life ways, thats what led me to go to school and get my degree and get back into the communities and help have those voices heard. if our people were caretakers, ...