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House Democrats Subpoena Pentagon, Prepare to Depose Sondland in Impeachment
Inquiry

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   Three U.S. House of Representatives committees are set to question
   Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, on Tuesday
   to find out more about the interactions between President Donald Trump
   and Ukrainian officials.

   The closed-door deposition is part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry
   in the House, which Trump on Monday again rejected as a "scam"
   perpetrated by Democrats who do not want him to win a second term in
   office next year.

   Sondland has become a prominent figure in the probe because of his
   efforts to get Ukraine to commit to investigate Trump's potential
   presidential rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Biden's son,
   Hunter.

   A whistleblower complaint that launched the impeachment inquiry says
   the day after Trump spoke by telephone with Ukraine President Volodymyr
   Zelenskiy, Sondland and U.S. envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker met with the
   Ukrainian leader and other political figures.

   The whistleblower said that according to readouts of those meetings
   recounted by U.S. officials, "Ambassadors Volker and Sondland
   reportedly provided advice to the Ukrainian leadership about how to
   'navigate' the demands that the President had made of Mr. Zelenskiy."

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