Department brought Gordon Soundland the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union from speaking to three house committees informing him of that Decision Just hours before he was scheduled for a deposition today. Ambassador sondland is among the three diplomats who exchanged potentially damning Text Messages about a possible effort to leverage the government of ukraine last summer. And according to republican senator ron johnson sondland told him over the summer the release was contingent on ukraine pointing a prosecutor who would quote get to bottom of what happened in 2016. House intelligence chairman adam schiff made clear the administrations stonewalling represents obstruction of justice to him. The failure to produce this witness, the failure to produce these documents we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress, a coequal branch of government. In a tweet this morning the president took personal responsibility for the decision