‘Modest’ Bathing Suits Make a Splash

 Models  Modeling Modest Swimsuits

When Deborah Nixon heads to her local pool in her swimsuit—a pair of long black leggings and a matching short-sleeved top like surfers wear—she gets compliments and admiring glances, at least from other women.

“It is the New Sexy,” says Ms. Nixon. The 58-year-old, who has abandoned her conventional one-piece bathing suit in favor of the more elaborate get-up, is convinced she looks and feels better with less of her showing.

A whole lot less.

Ms. Nixon, a former nurse and retired captain in the U.S. Public Health Service, is a fan of so-called modest swimsuits. This increasingly popular style of beachwear is a far cry—and for some women a welcome relief—from the skimpy bikinis and bare-all Brazilian bottoms that have dominated beach fashions.
“When you get older, you don’t want that much exposed,” says Ms. Nixon, who says she also likes the sun protection her swim outfit provides.

She purchased her suit from HydroChic, one of several online purveyors of modest swimwear that have sprung up in recent years in a competitive cottage industry. Like several others in the business, HydroChic, based in New Rochelle, N.Y., was started by Orthodox Jewish women looking for suitable beachwear in a community where women follow strict dress codes.

Orthodox women typically cover their arms and legs, presenting a conundrum for a trip to the beach.

 Sara Wolf, HydroChic’s co-founder, said she got the idea for the swim line at the Jersey Shore, where she spotted Orthodox women walking in the sand in ankle-length jean skirts. She found herself thinking about how her own friends wore oversize T-shirts and baggy men’s shorts to the beach.
“There really wasn’t much out there,” Ms. Wolf says.
With no formal fashion training, she and a friend decided to create a line of modest swimwear with a sportier look, akin to what joggers, surfers and divers wear. “You want to look normal, not like you fell out of the sky,” she says. 

While Ms. Wolf and others set out to cater to a niche market, many are finding a much broader customer base. Women of other faiths who also prefer modesty, along with older and plus-size women who don’t like how they look in a traditional bathing suit, are fans of the new beach wear. Younger women worried about sun exposure have also become clients.

In turn, some companies have broadened their offerings, venturing into the less modest, even slightly risqué realm.
Rachel Tabbouche, her sister and her mother started Undercover Waterwear to cater to religious Jewish women. But as the Brooklyn-based company has flourished, there has been a growing desire to capture a wider market, and some generational tension about how far to go.

The mother, Susan Esses, 66, is all for pushing the envelope to broaden the brand’s appeal.
Her daughters are more hesitant.
Last year, Ms. Esses’ latest creation, the Bandeau, triggered a family crisis. Ms. Esses arrived at a Miami swimwear show with a sample she hadn’t shown her daughters: a strapless bikini top made of a shiny, clingy fabric in a green reptile print, with a matching mini swim skirt.
Ms. Tabbouche says she and her sister Melissa Chehebar, 44, were livid. “It looked like a unibra. We were like, ‘you have got to be kidding.’ ” The offending item was yanked off the rack. The Bandeau was dead.
To this day, Ms. Esses insists it was “adorable.” Ms. Tabbouche, 32, says, “my mom and I have a different idea of what is adorable.”
Still, the firm has been dipping its toes into slightly more daring waters, with short sleeves and mini swim skirts.

These were on display at Town Shop, a lingerie and swimwear stalwart in Manhattan, a couple of feet from hot-selling Brazilian string bikinis.
 On a recent day, Ms. Tabbouche arrived at the store lugging a suitcase stuffed with the latest collection. Her mother at her side, she unveiled a “maxi” swim dress that went past the ankle and swimming skirts that graze the knee. Then, she showed off a short-sleeved swim top with a zipper in the front.
“But is it kosher?” Town Shop owner Danny Koch deadpanned.
Mr. Koch, a fourth-generation owner, was an early fan. He says the suits fill a void in the swimwear market.
They do for Danta Bolin, who readily admits, “I don’t have the prettiest thighs in the world.” For years, Ms. Bolin, who is in her early 50s, searched for adequate bathing suits. Finally, she ventured out to her favorite Texas water park in a HydroChic outfit: Bermuda-length swim shorts and a three-quarter sleeve top.
Ms. Bolin said she still remembers admiring comments from lifeguards who loved her surfer look: “They thought I was the coolest.” She has never looked back.
Now transplanted to upstate New York, Ms. Bolin has a new set of fans: devout Christian women living nearby, who regularly ask her where she found her swim gear. She says her preferred get-up has nothing to do with religion: “It doesn’t expose parts of me that don’t need to be exposed.”
Regine Tessone, a Brooklyn resident who started a firm called Aqua Modesta, used her training at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology to design her line, which she bills as “the original Kosher swimwear.” They go beyond one or two pieces into the realm of four and even five—including a long skirt with a set of capri pants sewn in, a top with sleeves that cover the elbows, a swim bra, and an optional matching swim cap.
Ms. Tessone says she is sticking to her core market, Orthodox women, and that means nothing sleeveless or even with short sleeves.
HydroChic’s Ms. Wolf has a different perspective. Her website has been urging women to “take a walk on the wild side”—at least by wearing prints. She is already offering tank tops and a “skort”—shorts hidden beneath a skirt. “I am not the modesty police,” she says.
As for Ms. Nixon, she is already eyeing her next purchase: A jaunty, and deeply modest, swim skirt with leggings. That is fine with her husband, Max. Even covered up, he says, “her curves are beautiful" 

An Aqua Modesta suit

Ms. Nixon, a former nurse and retired captain in the U.S. Public Health Service, is a fan of so-called modest swimsuits. This increasingly popular style of beachwear is a far cry—and for some women a welcome relief—from the skimpy bikinis and bare-all Brazilian bottoms that have dominated beach fashions.
“When you get older, you don’t want that much exposed,” says Ms. Nixon, who says she also likes the sun protection her swim outfit provides.
She purchased her suit from HydroChic, one of several online purveyors of modest swimwear that have sprung up in recent years in a competitive cottage industry. Like several others in the business, HydroChic, based in New Rochelle, N.Y., was started by Orthodox Jewish women looking for suitable beachwear in a community where women follow strict dress codes.
Orthodox women typically cover their arms and legs, presenting a conundrum for a trip to the beach. Sara Wolf, HydroChic’s co-founder, said she got the idea for the swim line at the Jersey Shore, where she spotted Orthodox women walking in the sand in ankle-length jean skirts. She found herself thinking about how her own friends wore oversize T-shirts and baggy men’s shorts to the beach.
“There really wasn’t much out there,” Ms. Wolf says.

With no formal fashion training, she and a friend decided to create a line of modest swimwear with a sportier look, akin to what joggers, surfers and divers wear. “You want to look normal, not like you fell out of the sky,” she says. 

Israel - Poll: Half of Israel's Jews Fear Another Tisha B'Av

Jews in Israel and around the world are observing the Fast of the Ninth of Av Sunday, the date on which the destruction of the two ancient Temples in Jerusalem took place and on which the other great calamities of Jewish history are also marked.

The day is designated as a fast to mourn the destruction of the First and Second Temples, and the Jewish exile from the Land of Israel after the Bar Kokhba revolt against Roman rule in Judea was put down in 135CE.

In the shadow of the international agreement between Iran and leading world powers that was reached earlier this month on the Iranian nuclear program, a poll conducted for the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem by the TNS research group found that 42 percent of Israelis are concerned that the State of Israel may be destroyed and that the biggest perceived threat was an Iranian attack with a nuclear weapon.

The poll was conducted on a sample of 500 Hebrew speakers between the ages of 18 and 65.

Out of those surveyed, 41.5% of respondents said they were worried about the possible destruction of the state of Israel compared to 58.5 who said they were not concerned about such an eventuality.

When asked what is currently the greatest threat to the State of Israel, 27.8% of those polled said an Iranian nuclear attack, while 22.3% said internal discord within the Jewish people was the clearest danger to the state. Another 19.2% said corruption among decision-makers and the political class was the greatest threat, 14.8 percent said war with one of Israel’s neighboring countries, 10.9% said an international boycott of the State of Israel and 4.9% said none of the the above or were unsure.

Notably, some 43% of those defining themselves as religious said that the greatest threat was baseless hatred, meaning internal strife among the Jewish people, while 46% of haredi respondents said the same thing.

The rabbis of the Talmud stated that the Second Temple was destroyed because of baseless hatred among the Jewish people at the time of the destruction in 70 CE, and this concept is frequently referenced by religious leaders during the three week period leading up to the Fast of Tisha B’Av as an admonition against repeating such mistakes in the modern State of Israel.

Some 24% of those defining themselves as religiously traditional said that internal baseless hatred was the biggest threat to Israel along with 12.3% of secular people.

The Iranian nuclear threat was the biggest concern for religiously traditional people, with 36.8% citing this danger as the most problematic, while the greatest danger perceived by secular people was corruption among political decision-makers, with 27.6% of secular respondents citing this concern as the gravest problem facing the country. 

The survey also found that almost one third of Israelis fast on Tisha B’Av, with 27.5% percent of respondents saying they fast for religious reasons and another 4.2% saying they fast for personal or societal reasons.  Another 3.9% fast partially and 64.3% of those surveyed said they do not fast at all.

Some 44% of respondents said correctly that Tisha B’Av marks the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, while just under 50% said it marked the destruction of one of the ancient Jewish temples.

Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post

Satmar Newspaper "Der Blatt" stabs Agudah in the back because of Agudah's letter against the Iran Deal!

I was in quandary whether I should be blogging about this on a day when the entire Jewish nation is mourning the destruction of the first and second Bais Hamikdash.

But then I heard the entire kehillah recite the Kinnos for the 6 million Jews that perished in the Holocaust composed by the late Bobover Rebbe z"l, and I decided that it is a "Choiv Kadosh" to post it on this very day!

Most Jewish people reading current events are frightened that history is repeating itself! 

If one peruses the pages of The New York Times from mid-September 1938 through the first week of of October 1938, it is apparent that what we are witnessing today is a virtual replay of those 3 weeks ...... only worse.

Two weeks before the September 30, 1938 Munich agreement, Germany increased its demands while promising as The Times wrote it:
"hearty reciprocal incidental to a wider European settlement"

A week before the agreement, German "demands had become higher," but Hitler reassured British Prime minister Neville Chamberlain that they were his "final" ones.

A few days before the signing, Hitler appeared before 15,000 people in Berlin's largest auditorium, where the "sieg heils" from the audience "were heard around the globe, for Hitler had a world hook-up" on radio. 

Chamberlain sent a letter to Hitler stating that Germany's demands were unacceptable but urged continued negotiations, because "force produces no solution." 

By the end of the week, Chamberlain had accepted all of Hitler's demands.
The British leader was, the Times reported, "obviously exhausted and had resolved to make an end of the whole business."
 As soon as the Munich capitulation was signed, it was portrayed by the New York Times as a great success. 

What we are living through now is far worse than Munich, not only because we are ignoring  the lesson learned from that event .... at the cost of a six-year world war and millions of deaths , but because even Chamberlain would be shocked at what is transpiring again.

Two weeks preceding its pact with the world powers, Iran increased its demands while the "moderate" Iranian president marched with huge crowds behind him screaming "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" with pictures flashed throughout the world via the Internet. 

After an exhausting 17 days of negotiations, with "deadlines" serially ignored by Iran and seriatim US concessions escalating as they went along, the president and secretary of state made an end of the whole business by accepting virtually all of Iran's demands, while paving the path toward its ultimate destructive goal.

And what, you may ask, is the goal of Iran? The goal is as the Ayatollah himself stated many times this year alone, to annihilate the Jewish State with its entire population, G-d Forbid.

So you would think that the holy Satmar Kehillah would be arranging Tehillim groups to pray to the Almighty to destroy the Iranian ideas. Nope!!
Would you think that they would close the yeshivas and have all the thousand of students march in lower Manhattan to protest the agreement? Nope
Would you think that they would join the Agudah in writing a letter to the president protesting this bad deal? Nope!

What these miserable  creatures did was write an editorial condemning the Agudah for even writing the letter!

(The Aroni faction of the Satmar cult publishes a yiddish weekly newspaper that has a larger circulation than the Daily News, called "Der Blatt" 
It is this rag that I am quoting.)

This is the same Agudah that is fighting for Kiryas Yoel to annex land in Monroe!
So what do these ungrateful Romanian gypsies do? They stab them in the back!
Every single Jewish organization except for "J" street is against this deal, except for Satmar!
But they aren't only stabbing the back of the Agudah ....they are stabbing every single Jew that is alive and living in the land of Israel, today!

Editorial against Agudah in Der Blatt

I will translate only the pertinent sentences, the rest is a bunch of lies, distortions and malicious garbage, from the naive demented Satmar goons!

Byline: A cry in vain

(DIN: they are in fact saying that all worries about the Iran deal, is in vain)

By the Meraglim, the Torah writes "they raised their voices and the entire nation cried on that night" 

The Talmud (in Taanis 29 a) writes: Said Rabbah in the name of Rabbi Yoichenan: "that night was tisha be'ov, " Said Hashem to them: " you are crying in vain, so I will institute a permanent cry for generations."

The harshness of that vain cry has now come to light. Seeing how the lying Yiddishe Zionists  world are drawn into the hysteria of the Iranian Nuclear agreement. 

They are up in arms crying crocodile tears and this wednesday while writing these (editorial) lines ... Zionist sympathizers are protesting the agreement in Manhattan.

And it is not just a protest from part of the (Zionist) people, but its as if the entire Zionists nation decided together to war against this deal.... the deal is by the way a forgone conclusion!

Israel itself has already spent over 50 million dollars on lobbyists in Washington DC to work against this deal.. others are terrorizing Senator Charles Schumer from New York, because he hasn't decided if he will support this deal!

And whats going on with the Agudas Yisroel of America????

Why was it necessary for the very first time in Aguda's history to write  a letter condemning America?

Should an organization like this fall under Netanyahu's spell?

There is more to this hateful editorial, but I'll leave it as is for now!

Tisha Be'OV

U.S. to Release Convicted Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard, Officials Say

The Obama administration is preparing to release convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard,according to U.S. officials, some of whom hope the move will smooth relations with Israel in the wake of the Iran nuclear deal.

Such a move would end a decadeslong fight over Mr. Pollard, who was arrested on charges of spying for Israel in 1985 and later sentenced to life in prison. The case has long been a source of tension between the U.S. and Israel, which has argued that a life sentence for spying on behalf of a close U.S. partner is too harsh. For decades, Israel has sought Mr. Pollard’s early release only to be rejected by the U.S.

Now, some U.S. officials are pushing for Mr. Pollard’s release in a matter of weeks. Others expect it could take months, possibly until his parole consideration date in November. Some U.S. officials strongly denied Friday there was any link between the Iran deal and Mr. Pollard’s prospective release, saying that any release decision would be made by the U.S. Parole Commission.

A White House spokesman referred questions to the Justice Department, where a spokesman declined to comment on a matter which may be before the Parole Commission.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been a vocal opponent of the deal struck between Iran and six world powers to curb Iran’s nuclear program. Discord between Israel and the U.S., longtime allies, has led to a deteriorating relationship that is the stormiest it has been in decades.

Mr. Netanyahu has personally pressed for years to get the U.S. to release Mr. Pollard, who is currently serving time in a federal prison in Butner, N.C.

Mr. Pollard, 60 years old, was a civilian analyst with the U.S. Navy when he was arrested for passing secret documents to Israel. He eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life.

The mechanism or likely rationale for freeing Mr. Pollard couldn't immediately be learned. The most likely scenario would be to free him when he first becomes eligible for parole in November, according to some U.S. officials.

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Anne Henderson Pollard and Jonathan Pollard at their wedding Aug. 9, 1985, in Italy. PHOTO:GETTY IMAGES

Under sentencing laws at the time he was convicted, Mr. Pollard has to be considered for parole after 30 years. The Bureau of Prisons website currently lists his possible release date as Nov. 21, which is the date the federal parole commission is slated to consider whether to end his sentence.

A parole hearing for Mr. Pollard was held in early July. Mr. Pollard’s lawyer, Eliot Lauer, said he hasn’t heard from the parole commission “and I would expect that either I or my client would be the ones who would be notified.’’

Last year, President Barack Obama told an Israeli interviewer: “I have no plans for releasing Jonathan Pollard immediately but what I am going to be doing is to make sure that he, like every other American who’s been sentenced, is accorded the same kinds of review and the same examination of the equities that any other individual would provide.’’

To get out before November would require unusual intervention. In the federal prison system, often the easiest way to free an inmate early is to cite deteriorating health. Mr. Pollard’s supporters say he is suffering from a host of medical ailments that should qualify him for mercy.

The U.S. has considered releasing him before but always backed away from such a move, largely because of opposition from senior leaders at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Justice Department.

It is possible such opposition could again scuttle any release, but it appears his chances at winning freedom are better now than they have ever been, U.S. officials said. Some U.S. officials have concluded he will be a free man before the year is over, these people said.

The prospect of Mr. Pollard’s freedom still grates on many U.S. intelligence officials, in part because his release wouldn’t likely come as part of like-for-like swap, as is often how espionage cases are resolved. Other officials counter that 30 years is a fair punishment and that keeping Mr. Pollard in prison until he dies would serve little purpose.

Mr. Pollard has explained his espionage activity by citing a great affinity for Israel, though counter-intelligence officials say he was paid tens of thousands of dollars for his work.

From June 1984 through November 1985, Mr. Pollard removed large amounts of highly classified U.S. intelligence from his office, made copies and delivered it to Israeli operatives.

About a year after his spying began, federal agents stopped Mr. Pollard as he was leaving work and questioned him about the possible unauthorized removal of classified information.

During that conversation, he twice took breaks to call his wife, using a prearranged code word “cactus,” signaling that she should remove a suitcase full of classified information from their apartment. She also pleaded guilty and served three years in prison and later moved to Israel.

Schumer .... Where are you?

Sen. Chuck Schumer is famous for his ability to locate the nearest TV camera and plant himself squarely in front of the lens.

And yet, as about 8,000 rallied in Manhattan Wednesday night on an issue near and dear to Schumer’s heart — Israel’s security — the senator was a no-show.

The rally was in opposition to the Iranian nuclear deal. Schumer was absent because he hasn’t yet decided whether to do the right thing and oppose President Obama’s disastrous deal, or do the opposite of the right thing and shepherd it through Congress.

Israel’s supporters in the United States have many reasons to hope the deal goes down in Congress.

Yet one goes unmentioned: Schumer’s role in securing passage of the Iran deal represents what would be the capstone in Obama’s quest to distance the United States from Israel.

To understand why, some brief background is in order.

In July 2009, about a month after making his famous “address to the Muslim world” in Cairo, Obama hosted national Jewish leaders at the White House.

Malcolm Hoenlein, head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, offered the president a word of advice. “If you want Israel to take risks, then its leaders must know that the United States is right next to them,” Hoenlein said.

Obama disagreed, saying that during the George W. Bush years “there was no space between us and Israel, and what did we get from that? When there is no daylight, Israel just sits on the sidelines, and that erodes our credibility with the Arab states.”

This statement neatly demonstrated the two major weaknesses in Obama’s view of the Middle East.

The first is historical ignorance: Far from Israel sitting on the sidelines, when Bush stood steadfastly by Israel, the Jewish state — then led by rightist Prime Minister Ariel Sharon — evacuated every last Jew and soldier from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.

Second, Obama was signaling clearly his intent to put “daylight” between the two countries.

But the president can only create so much of that daylight himself.

In reality, the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel is so strong precisely because it goes far deeper than the whims of the current occupant of the Oval Office.

Both the US military and Congress have close working relationships with their Israeli counterparts.

This is deeply frustrating for Obama, so he set out to weaken those pillars of the US-Israel relationship.

How would Obama weaken military ties? Here’s what he did.

During last summer’s war in Gaza, Israeli defense officials wanted to replenish munitions from stocks of American weapons stored in Israel for just such an occasion. The Pentagon didn’t need presidential approval to green-light the transfer, which it did.

Obama, however, objected when he found out about it. He withheld additional weapons transfers to Israel and forced the Pentagon to route such requests through the White House. Obama had essentially downgraded the US-military alliance during wartime.

But Congress is a coequal branch, and thus harder for Obama to control. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t tried, of course.

The most recent example was when House Speaker John Boehner invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress without coordinating it with the White House. Obama cast congressional attendance at the speech as a betrayal.

But nothing Obama has done to damage Israel’s standing in Congress could compare to getting Chuck Schumer — the supposed shomer (guardian, in Hebrew) of Israel — to ensure the survival of a nuclear deal that rearranges America’s Mideast alliances by elevating Tehran at the expense of the Israelis, the Saudis, the Jordanians and the Egyptians, among others.

And that’s why crowds in Times Square Wednesday night chanted “Where is Chuck Schumer?”

As Schumer continues to avoid answering questions about his stance on the nuke deal, his constituents are wondering how far he’s willing to go to become the Democrats’ next Senate leader.

Would Schumer the shomer throw America’s allies under the bus and allow Obama to drive a wedge between Washington and Jerusalem? If Schumer won’t answer that question directly, his handling of the Iran deal will.

Twins who married twins have babies minutes apart

The twin brothers, Niv and Ran Cohen, 24, and the twin sisters, Leah and Rivka, 20, become parents to daughters born only 20 minutes apart on Sunday 

Twin brothers, Niv and Ran Cohen, with their newborn daughters  |  Photo credit: Kikar Hashabbat

In a rare but happy coincidence on Sunday in Israel's Breslov hassidic community, twin sisters, who are married to twin brothers, each gave birth to a baby girl at almost exactly the same time.

Like the twin sisters, and their twin husbands, the two baby girls were born 20 minutes apart, Orthodox news website Kikar Hashabbat reported.

The twin brothers, Niv and Ran Cohen, 24, and the twin sisters, Leah and Rivka, 20, were married four days apart.

Both couples live in Yavne'el and follow the late Rabbi Eliezer Shlomo Schick, who matched the sets of twins to marry and predicted that they would have children at the same time.

Niv remarked that his and his brother's state ID numbers are only two digits apart, as are their wives' -- and now the same will be true for their daughters.

The sisters' mother said, "With us, everything comes in twos.

Schumer has Hikend arrested because he dared protest in front of his office paid by taxpayers

Trump tells CNN "The people don't trust you"

In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that was broadcasted tonight, Republican candidate for president Donald Trump berated the reporter for continuing to address polls that shed him in a negative light instead of polls showing his upper-tier status.

 "I am leading across the board," Trump said in the interview. "And then you hit me with this poll that I didn't see before, where oh, gee, it's not even that kind of a poll. All i know is I have a very big group of support. And I think one of the reasons." 

 "Let me tell you. The people don't trust you and the people don't trust the media. And I understand why," Trump lectured Cooper. 

 Trump also said the American dream is "dead," but he will revive it and "make it bigger, better and stronger than ever before." 

 "You know I tell the story, the American dream -- I talk about the American dream in speeches," Trump said. "The American dream is dead but I'm going to make it bigger, better and stronger than ever before."

DONALD TRUMP: You keep bringing up negative. You only want to talk about negative. Why don't you bring up the positive? 

 ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: I did. 

TRUMP: Excuse me. 

 COOPER: I started off with the Washington Post poll. 

 TRUMP: You started off the interview --

 COOPER: No, I started off with the Washington Post poll. 

TRUMP: You start off the interview with a poll that I didn't even know existed. 

 COOPER: I started off with the Washington Post poll. Intentionally, because I knew you would accuse me of that. 

TRUMP: All I know is every poll I am leading in and you give me these two polls where it is different states. They're not even a national poll. 

 COOPER: Check the record. 

 TRUMP: I'm sure the record is fine. 

 COOPER: I started off with the Washington Post poll where you are way out in front.

 TRUMP: I just think it is very unfair. Talk to me about a poll I have never even saw.

 COOPER: It came out today. 

 TRUMP: It's not even a poll. It's in three different states and you are hitting me with this. Frankly, I think it is a very unfair question. I think it is an extremely -- you start off the interview with that. You don't say, I led in the FOX poll. I'm leading in the ABC/Washington Post poll. 

 COOPER: You're leading across the board. 

 TRUMP: I am leading across the board. And then you hit me with this poll that I didn't see before, where oh, gee, it's not even that kind of a poll. All i know is I have a very big group of support. And I think one of the reasons. 

 COOPER: Among Republicans you are way out in the front. 

TRUMP: Let me tell you. The people don't trust you and the people don't trust the media. And I understand why. 

 COOPER: Right. And politicians. 

 TRUMP: You know, I have always been covered, fairly, accurately because it was usually a financial press. And you know numbers are numbers and my numbers happen to be great. So, I was always sort of treated fair. With the media it's, not all cases, some, some of the political media is great. And really honest. Even if they've don't want to want to be, they're really honest. But I find that 60%, 70% of the political media is really, really dishonest. You know I tell the story, the American dream -- I talk about the American dream in speeches. The American dream is dead but I'm going to make it bigger, better and stronger than ever before. The American dream is dead. But i'm going to make it bigger, stronger. Right. And I go 'boom!' and I do it with great bravado and the audience goes crazy.

Neutrei Karta Savages Wave Iranian Flags At Anti-Nuke Rally In Times Square