CONFIRMED: Ambassador Sondland WILL testify next Thursday despite State Department's direction to block his appearance.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 11, 2019
Statement from his lawyer: pic.twitter.com/xR2BEKpbnS
We can have some lofty legal arguments about appropriate application of "executive privilege" but, no, the State Department can't just randomly order someone to defy a subpoena and apparently a lawyer told him that.