until ukraine agreed to launch investigations into the bidens and 2016 election. taylor testifying he was told that president trump did insist president zelensky go to a mike stone and say he's opening investigations of biden and 2016 election interference. president trump is dismissing that testimony. slamming him as a political enemy and saying pompeo made a mistake in appointing him. a well respected career professional. >> mike pompeo everybody makes mistakes. he's a never trumper. the head of the never trumper. >> republicans standing by the president are arguing that taylor's testimony was a secondhand account. >> hearsay. but in the sense that it was passed on. it wasn't a direct conversation. >> republicans blasting the process that the house is under taking behind closed doors. even though almost 50 republican members across the three