the impeachment inquiry declared today, announcing their intention to subpoena the united states ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland. that decision came after sondland was directed at the very last minute, flew in from brussels, to sit for a joint deposition. he agreed to do it. it was called off. apparent tweets, the president's directive came straight from the white house. there are more questions about the relationship and possible orchestration between trump and sondland. this becomes very interesting. nbc news has learned the three u.s. diplomats, including gordon sondland, whose text messages partially corroborated the whistle-blower's complaint moved their conversation to speak on the private encrypted app, what's app. we learned that sondland had a call with the president september 9th. here's why that is important. september 9th, the u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylor texted sondland. the message to the ukrainians and russians, we send the decision on security assistance