Why Did America Spend $100 Billion on a "Little Crappy Ship"?

ver the past 20 years, the U. S. Navy has built a vessel that they've nicknamed the "little crappy ship." It barely works and it's costing us taxpayers about 100 billion or about what we'd spend on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 20 years, the agency that regulates nuclear materials in 100 years or the Peace Corps over the course of 200 years.

How did this happen? And what does it say about the entire way we arm our nation through the defense industrial complex? We're joined by the outstanding investigative journalist who broke this entire story about the literal combat ship, Joaquin Sapien, who was one of the first reporters hired at our friends at ProPublica.

We've had other reporters from ProPublica with us before. You all just do outstanding work and I would be remiss if I didn't mention that one of your recent stories a few years ago won a Deadline Club award and a Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for excellence in reporting on disability.