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Still, Mr. McGahn was expected to be asked to respond under oath to Mr. Trump’s public denial of events that were described in the report based in part on what Mr. McGahn told Mr. Mueller’s investigators, including that Mr. Trump had ordered him to have Mr. Mueller fired — a step Mr. McGahn said he refused to take.

People familiar with his ongoing testimony said on Friday that the former top White House lawyer was hewing closely to the account he had already given the special counsel, often telling committee lawyers that his recollections of four-year-old events were no longer sharp. In the first several hours, at least, Mr. McGahn had not broken significant new ground, according to the people, who requested anonymity to describe the nonpublic testimony.

“He’s being somewhat difficult,” Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and the Judiciary Committee chairman, said during a break midway through the session, though he added that Mr. McGahn was not being altogether uncooperative.

Republicans were pleased to declare the interview a waste of time as they left the session after more than five hours of questioning.

“Today, we have the House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee relitigating the Mueller report,” said Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee. “Don McGahn hasn’t been White House counsel for three years.”