After finding out from the press that the Trump administration blocked a top diplomat from testifying before Congress on Tuesday, several Republican lawmakers went to the White House and asked that they not be blindsided again, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News.
The State Department ordered Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, not to testify as part of the House impeachment probe. Several of President Trump's biggest cheerleaders — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), and Rep. Scott Perry (R-Penn.) — were waiting for Sondland to appear on Tuesday morning, and after learning that he wasn't coming, they headed to the White House to talk with Trump and his senior advisers about how they can improve their communication with his congressional defenders, Bloomberg News reports.
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