Impeachment article has 200 cosponsors: US rep.

After an hours-long phone call earlier Friday with the entire Democratic caucus, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a new statement is walking a fine line on next steps and remaining noncommittal on moving forward with impeachment.

Pelosi said it's still Democrats' hope that Trump will "immediately resign."

"But if he does not, I have instructed the Rules Committee to be prepared to move forward with Congressman Jamie Raskin’s 25th Amendment legislation and a motion for impeachment. Accordingly, the House will preserve every option – including the 25th Amendment, a motion to impeach or a privileged resolution for impeachment," she said in the statement.

This comes after nearly 160 Democrats have signed on to legislation in support of a single article of impeachment against the president -- which it is expected that they still plan to introduce as early as Monday -- but Pelosi does not definitively say she will support it or that the chamber will move forward with impeachment.

- ABC News' Mariam Khan and Benjamin Siegel

White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere has issued a statement in response to movement on Capitol Hill to impeach Trump for a second time.

“As President Trump said yesterday, this is a time for healing and unity as one Nation. A politically motivated impeachment against a President, who has done a great job, with 12 days remaining in his term will only serve to further divide our great country," the statement read.

-ABC News' Ben Gittleson

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said in an interview with the Anchorage Daily News that she wants Trump to resign and questioned whether she would remain a part of the Republican party.

"I want him to resign. I want him out. He has caused enough damage," Murkowski said. 

She attributed the violence at the Capitol Wednesday to Trump and said that if the Republican Party cannot separate itself from the president she questions her place in it.

"If the Republican Party has become nothing more than the party of Trump, I sincerely question whether this is the party for me," she said.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

After directing questions on impeachment to Congress, Biden said he thinks the "quickest way" for Trump to be removed from office is with his own inauguration on Jan. 20 and it's a "good thing" Trump isn't showing up.

"One of the few things he and I have ever agreed on. It's a good thing, him not showing up," Biden said. "Because he has clearly demonstrated -- he’s exceeded even my worst notions about him. He's been an embarrassment to the country, embarrassed us around the world -- not worthy, not worthy to hold that office."

"If we were six months out, we should be moving everything to get him out of office -- impeaching him again, invoke -- trying to invoke the 25th amendment, whatever it took to get him out of office, but I am focused now on us taking control," he added.

Biden said he hasn't spoken with Vice President Mike Pence but that he'd be "honored" to have him at the inauguration.

-ABC News' Molly Nagle and John Verhovek