scandal will be testifying before the house, and while you might not know the name gordon sondland, you've likely read his text messages by this point, like this one -- ambassador bill taylor, who is the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, writes to sondland, "are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations?" those would be those conspiracy theory investigations that president trump wanted ukraine to launch into the 2016 election and joe biden and his son. now, you can see there, sondland's response was "call me." california congressman john garamendi was in ukraine earlier this month and he was actually with ambassador bill taylor when these bombshell texts were released to the public. here's what congressman garamendi had to say. >> the morning that we visited with the minister of defense, we met ambassador taylor right outside the ministry. and at that moment, our cell