know, get on the record behind closed doors with these investigators about his role in all of this. we know somebody who is paying attention to this is sitting in the white house right now, and that is president trump. who is tweeting about this new development just in the last couple of minutes here. fill us in on what he s saying? if you listen closely to matt gates at the top of the show, you may hear some overlap? reporter: right. it s clear that everyone is on the same sheet here. what you see from the president is him really owning this decision on twitter, not to have sondland actually go ahead and appear before the house commits. what we don t know is whether or not the president direct his secretary of state to make this decision. we had a preview of this about a week ago when we had those letters from pompeo laying out a long list of grievances on why he didn t think it was appropriate for state department officials to testify without their attorneys. but because we have