public box by making a public statement about ordering such investigation. >> reporter: both men making clear how unsettled they were with the rogue ukraine policy and the demands on the ukrainians. >> it's one thing to try to leverage a meeting in the white house. it's another thing, i thought, to leverage security assistance. >> as a general principle, i do not believe the united states should ask other countries to engage in selective politically associated investigations or prosecutions against opponents of those in power. >> reporter: republicans blasted the hearing. the gop united in their defense that the president never actually demanded investigations. jim jordan of ohio, who was added to the intelligence committee for the sole purpose of questioning the impeachment witnesses, driving home a central gop talking point, that it's all hearsay. >> you're their star witness. you're their first witness.