Article snippet: House Democrats are weighing whether to take action against U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, who some lawmakers believe misled impeachment investigators during his closed-door deposition earlier this month. Upon hearing from a series of career foreign service and national security officials, some Democrats say Sondland lied to three House committees investigating MORE’s contacts with Ukraine, particularly in regard to pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch two investigations that would help Trump politically. Now, some Democrats want Sondland to return to Capitol Hill to testify about the conflicting accounts of his involvement, while others are saying he should be charged for misleading the House committees. The latest development comes after Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the director for European affairs on the National Security Council (NSC), on Tuesday testified for roughly 10 hours before House investigators. Vindman said Sondland had direct involvement in pressuring Zelensky for investigations into both the 2016 election and former Vice President MORE, one of Trump’s top 2020 political opponents. Some Democrats said Vindman’s testimony uncovered a crime: Sondland, they charged, had lied under oath. "He clearly lied to the committee. They should pursue charges against him,” said one Democratic lawmaker involved with the impeachment inquiry. Other Democrats, while they didn’t call for a specific course of action, said... Link to the full article to read more