CNN anchor Jake Tapper grilled National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the Pentagon’s massive $3 billion miscalculation of equipment sent to Ukraine, calling it “a hell of an accounting error.”
“There was this very bizarre admission from the Pentagon this week of an accounting error that suggested that the U.S. has at least $3 billion that it didn’t know it had that it can use for Ukraine aid,” Tapper said to Sullivan on Sunday’s “State of the Union.” “That’s a hell of an accounting error. And it provides a lot of fodder to critics of U.S. aid to Ukraine, and critics who say there’s not enough oversight going on.