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TAPPER: “I’m old enough to remember the Iranian hostage crisis in ’79, ’80, and you and I have talked about hostages and detainees for years now, Trevor Reed and others. I’m really struck by something in the last 30 or so days, especially as the White House earlier today confirmed that one of the estimated 240 hostages kidnapped by Hamas and other groups in Gaza, one of them is a 3-year-old American child. There are people in the United States, loud voices, who, shown this crisis in which there are Americans and innocent people, innocent Israelis, taken hostage, are actually rooting for the hostage takers. And we see these images seemingly every day of Americans ripping down posters of kidnapped kids. Kidnapped children.”