{"id":114998,"date":"2019-10-17T15:55:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/17\/trump-impeachment-inquiry-eu-ambassador-gordon-sondland-to-testify-live\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T15:55:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:55:40","slug":"trump-impeachment-inquiry-eu-ambassador-gordon-sondland-to-testify-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=114998","title":{"rendered":"Trump impeachment inquiry: EU ambassador Gordon Sondland to testify \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sondland, a key figure in Ukraine inquiry, to testify behind closed doors, while Pence and Pompeo in Turkey to try to negotiate ceasefireSign up to the US briefing and get a new perspective 2.54pm BST US ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland\u2019s opening statement to Congress has been leaked, just as his closed-door testimony to Congress is slated to start.Sondland, a wealthy hotel financier and a mega-Trump donor, is planning to break from Donald Trump in his testimony saying that Trump directed diplomats to work with Rudy Giuliani, Trump\u2019s personal lawyer. Sondland said he contacted Giuliani anyway at Trump\u2019s direction, and that Rudy drew a direct link between scheduling a White House visit for Ukraine\u2019s newly elected president and demands that Ukraine prioritize an investigation involving former Biden, and one re: 2016 election pic.twitter.com\/cQZab5Dkf7 2.33pm BST Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, has just arrived at the capitol for his close-door testimony that begins at 10am. Sondland will be testifying before the House committees conducting the impeachment inquiry.Gordon Sondland arrives pic.twitter.com\/u1dZg0VzG0 Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2019\/oct\/17\/donald-trump-news-today-impeachment-inquiry-gordon-sondland-ukraine-news-live\" target=\"_blank\">Trump impeachment inquiry: EU ambassador Gordon Sondland to testify \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sondland, a key figure in Ukraine inquiry, to testify behind closed doors, while Pence and Pompeo in Turkey to try to negotiate ceasefireSign up to the US briefing and get a new perspective 2.54pm BST US ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland\u2019s opening statement to Congress has been leaked, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}