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“We’re sort of sitting here watching the information flow out of the White House, damning information, facts that are undisputed,” Mr. Himes said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “What’s happening is that people around the president, professionals, who are in the Oval Office, who are in the Situation Room, are watching what is happening and are finally saying, ‘my God, this cannot happen anymore,’ and they are coming forward.”

The intelligence panel is still working with the first whistle-blower and the director of national intelligence to arrange a private interview. With information evolving unusually quickly, few senior congressional Republicans or White House officials have been willing to step out publicly to defend Mr. Trump’s actions. The White House, which has been riven internally about how to handle impeachment proceedings, with no one clearly in charge, did not have any senior officials making the case to defend Mr. Trump on Sunday.

And those congressional allies who did make public comments on Sunday either focused on attacking Democrats’ handling of the case or said they would reserve judgment until they saw more facts.

Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri and a key member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he was interested to learn more about the new whistle-blower and offered no defense of Mr. Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. Instead, he said he first wanted to see the results of the Senate’s bipartisan investigation of the matter before making a judgment.

“You have to assume if it is essentially a partisan vote in the House, that that sets the stage for likely the same kind of vote in the Senate,” Mr. Blunt said on CBS. “But let’s see what the facts are.”

Others were more squarely behind the president.

Representative Chris Stewart, Republican of Utah and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday” that he was “not at all” concerned by the emergence of another whistle-blower because he had already seen a transcript of Mr. Trump’s July call with Ukraine’s president that, in his view, was not problematic.

On ABC’s “This Week,” Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, one of Mr. Trump’s most steadfast defenders, said the president was merely interested in rooting out legitimate accusations of corruption and that Democrats were unfairly vilifying him for it.