Impeachment article has 200 cosponsors: US rep.

The draft, citing "incitement of insurrection," could be introduced Monday.

Last Updated: January 10, 2021, 2:29 PM EST

President Donald Trump is slated to hand over control of the White House to President-elect Joe Biden in 11 days.

Jan 10, 2021, 2:29 PM EST

Rep. Cicilline: 'Just passed 200 cosponsors' on article of impeachment

Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., said on Twitter that an article of impeachment has just passed 200 cosponsors.

House Democrats were circulating the draft, citing "incitement of insurrection" on Friday and said they could introduce it as early as Monday and hold a vote as early as the middle of the week.

On Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a letter to Democrats, asked members to prepare to return to Washington this week -- another signal that the House could take up and pass the impeachment article to the Senate after it is formally introduced.

The article charges Trump with "willfully inciting violence against the government of the United States" with his comments at the rally outside the White House that it says "encouraged—and foreseeably resulted in—imminent lawless action at the Capitol."

-ABC News' Benjamin Siegel

Jan 10, 2021, 10:58 AM EST

GOP Rep. Kinzinger: Best thing for the country is Trump to resign

While Many Democrats have renewed calls to impeach Trump, following his supporters' storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger said on ABC's "This Week" that he doesn't think impeachment is "the smart move" right now.

He did, however, call for the president to resign or be removed by the 25th Amendment.

"I think it victimizes Donald Trump again and I think there's a moment that we're in right now where Donald Trump, he's looking really, really bad," Kinzinger told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos.

"I'll vote the right way, you know, if I'm presented with that, I just think it's probably not the smartest move right now but I think that's going to be out of my hands," he added.

Jan 10, 2021, 10:53 AM EST

Trump 'represents a clear and present danger' to Congress, country: Ocasio-Cortez

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. said she believes that a second impeachment of President Donald Trump should be scheduled.

"Our main priority is to ensure the removal of Donald Trump as president of the United States," Ocasio-Cortez told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. "Every minute and every hour that he is in office represents a clear and present danger, not just to the United States Congress but frankly to the country."

"We're also talking about complete barring of the president -- or rather of Donald Trump -- from running for office ever again," she added. "And in addition to that the potential ability to prevent pardoning himself from those charges that he was impeached for."

Trump 'represents a clear and present danger' to Congress, country: Ocasio-Cortez

Jan 10, 2021, 10:49 AM EST

Chris Christie: Trump's incitement of Capitol siege an impeachable offense

Former New Jersey governor and ABC News Contributor Chris Christie told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos that Trump’s incitement of the Capitol siege is an impeachable offense.

“If inciting to insurrection isn’t, then I don’t really know what is,” he said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

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