BREAKING: Democrats to subpoena ‘no-show’ key witness
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The chairmen of the three House committees leading Democrats’ impeachment inquiry said Tuesday that they will issue a subpoena to a key official that the State Department blocked from testifying.
Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, was scheduled to appear for a deposition before the committees on Tuesday until the State Department moved early in the morning to prevent his testimony.
The article goes on to state the following:
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said they would subsequently move to subpoena Sondland later Tuesday for testimony and documents.
NEW: Dems will be issuing a subpoena for Sondland testimony/docs.
State Dept left Sondland’s attorneys a voicemail at 12:30 a.m. informing them that testimony would be blocked. Sondland also recovered relevant texts on his personal device, but turned them over to State, Dems say. pic.twitter.com/wOrnrjJstI— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) October 8, 2019
JUST IN: House Democrats announced they intend to subpoena U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, who the Trump administration blocked from testifying in their Ukraine investigation today.https://t.co/x3P4USZ5aR
— Axios (@axios) October 8, 2019
JUST IN: House cmtes. say they will be “issuing subpoena to Ambassador Sondland for both his testimony and documents” after the US State Dept. blocked his congressional testimony today, and “we consider this interference to be obstruction of the impeachment inquiry.”
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 8, 2019
#BREAKING: Democrats to subpoena EU ambassador Gordon Sondland after State Dept blocked testimony https://t.co/fLgzOt3fwV pic.twitter.com/rzKbteg4vJ
— The Hill (@thehill) October 8, 2019
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