that's exactly what happened to ftx crypto users like nick howard, who shared his story with america on national public radio. when nick first opened his account with ftx, he says he had no intention of making any speculative or risky investment. in fact, he was using the platform to store his paychecks from his employer which had chosen to pay him through cryptocurrency, known as tether. tether is one of the so-called stable coins. it was designed to offer greater security and stability than other cryptocurrencies like bitcoin by being pegged to the value of a dollar. well, as nick learned the hard way, there is no such thing as stability when it cops -- comes to cryptocurrency. when nick first signed up for ftx his employer assured him the platform was, quote, really good, really stable. so he took his employer's word for it as well as the word of public figures and advisors, well-respected names like larry david, tom brady, who appeared on television on ads for ftx. nick had $16,000 worth of paychecks deposited in his ftx account. by the time the platform imploded. nick's a young f

howard: so, meghan, trump meets with kanye west, ye, who spent weeks spewing anti-semitic garbage and also dining with holocaust denier nick statements saying he didn't know fuentes was coming and he didn't know who he was, which may be true, but not making any kind of statement about the abhorrent views of this man. >> first and foremost, he shouldn't be meeting with kanye west period after the anti-semitic vile he's been saying and betweening and doing for weeks on end. -- tweeting. we've all, unfortunately, had a front row seat to watching this extremely dangerous time -- howard: right, and never back off. >> trump should just say, no, i'm not meeting with kanye west. and then to include one of the most dangerous, notorious white supremacist holocaust deniers and then to have dinner with them, i just don't understand. howie, if you and kristin invited me to dinner and said i'm inviting x person and i don't know who they are and it's a professional dinner, i'm going to find out who they are, and is i'm not running for president of the united states. a lot of people are freaking out. there's a bunnen of report -- bunch of

white neighborhoods of bensonhurst and howard beach, back in the, 80s how that informs how we should look at donald trump today. talk more about that in fold into the nickump was born and raised in, queens new york. you can see these documentaries coming, out and. theaters it shows the actual footage of when we lost in keys was killed killing a black young man for just being in the neighborhood. they would come out and openly talked, you looking at -- call us the annual court and throw -- at. as they showed actual footage of the documentary. that is the queens donald trump grew up on. donald trump grew up in a climate of northern racism. people to blame racism and racial racial bigotry. displaying an exercising in the. south one of the reasons i'm playing john legend, it shows the. for the traditional. actors the actual things that happened. donald trump only took a position on one racial case, but i know of, in all of the years that i've been out of. here he is without. here he is nine years old. and that was in central park, java. case where he was calling for the death of five black and brown young men accused of raping a white woman. and he called -