Impeachment article has 200 cosponsors: US rep.
The draft, citing "incitement of insurrection," could be introduced Monday.
President Donald Trump is slated to hand over control of the White House to President-elect Joe Biden in 11 days.
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- Rep. Cicilline: 'Just passed 200 cosponsors' on article of impeachment
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Biden, Harris introduce key members of economic and jobs teams
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris introduced their nominees to lead the Commerce and Labor departments, as well as the Small Business Administration -- all posts that will be critical to implementing his economic agenda once he takes office later this month.
Biden opened by touting the historic firsts of his Cabinet.
"This will be the first Cabinet ever that is evenly composed of as many women as men," Biden began. "This will be the first Cabinet ever with a majority of people of color occupying this Cabinet. And it has more than a dozen history-making appointments, including the first woman secretary of treasury, first African American defense secretary, the first openly gay Cabinet member, and the first Native American Cabinet secretary."
Biden is nominating Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo for secretary of commerce. Raimondo, who was elected as the state's first female governor in 2014, was under consideration to be Biden's running mate and was a potential choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
For secretary of labor, Biden is nominating Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Walsh, who has led Boston since 2014, would be the first union member to serve in the post in almost half a century if confirmed by the Senate.
Biden also introduced Isabel Guzman as his pick to serve as small business administrator. She currently serves as the director of California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate and is a key leader in the state’s COVID-19 economic recovery.
Finally, Biden is nominating Don Graves, an executive at KeyBank, as his nominee for deputy secretary of commerce.
All the positions introduced Friday, except deputy commerce secretary, are Cabinet level.
McCarthy plans to talk to Biden Friday
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he has reached out to Biden and plans to talk to him later Friday about uniting the country -- as he expresses opposition to the idea of impeaching Trump again.
“Impeaching the President with just 12 days left in his term will only divide our country more,” McCarthy wrote in a statement Friday. “I have reached out to President-elect Biden today and plan to speak to him about how we must work together to lower the temperature and unite the country to solve America’s challenges.”
McCarthy also confirmed he spoke with Trump on Wednesday to urge him “to intervene to quell the mob.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, told colleagues on a caucus call Friday afternoon she is planning to speak with Biden later in the day about how she wants to move forward regarding Trump after publicly calling for his removal from office.
-ABC News' John Parkinson
Pelosi tells Dems Milley assured her 'safeguards' are in place
In a caucus call with House Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley assured her "safeguards" are in place when she expressed her concerns about Trump having access to nuclear codes in the last days of his presidency, sources on the line told ABC News.
She said she is planning to talk to Biden later in the day about how to move forward regarding Trump, according to sources on the call, after publicly calling for Trump's immediate removal through the 25th Amendment or through impeachment if Vice President Mike Pence and Cabinet officials refuse to proceed.
"The president chose to be an insurrectionist," Pelosi said on the call, according to sources.
"Impeachment encourages conversation on the 25th Amendment. That’s picked up a lot of steam," she said.
Pelosi, according another source, said she is "emotionally" devastated by Wednesday but remains "dispassionate" about how to move forward.
More than half the caucus -- or 130 House Democrats -- are calling for Trump's immediate impeachment and have co-sponsored a resolution from Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I. The House could take it up and pass it to the Senate as soon as next week.
But some Democrats are urging caution, wary of derailing Biden's agenda. Pelosi wanted to take the temperature of her members before discussing her options with the president-elect.
-ABC News' Mariam Khan, Benjamin Siegel, and Katherine Faulders
Reddit 'has taken action' to ban 'Donald Trump' chat forum
Reddit has banned the subreddit r/donaldtrump for what it calls repeated recent violations over the storming of the U.S. Capitol.
"Reddit's site-wide policies prohibit content that promotes hate, or encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence against groups of people or individuals. In accordance with this, we have been proactively reaching out to moderators to remind them of our policies and to offer support or resources as needed. We have also taken action to ban the community r/donaldtrump given repeated policy violations in recent days regarding the violence at the U.S. Capitol," the platform said in a statement.
Reddit had previously banned a similar subreddit, r/the_donald, which was a factory of toxic pro-Trump memes and narratives until the site took it down last year.
The president himself is not involved with these forums, though it’s not unheard of for memes to begin life there and in similar online forums before making their way into the president’s media diet.
-ABC News' Evan McMurray and Ben Gittleson
Cheney argues an Electoral college challenge sets an 'exceptionally dangerous' precedent
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., a member of House GOP leadership and one of the first prominent Republicans to acknowledge Biden's victory, sent a 21-page memo to her conference making the case against a challenge to the Electoral College certification process on Wednesday, arguing that it would improperly overrule states' authority over elections, and set a "dangerous precedent" down the line for future elections and sessions of Congress.
"By objecting to electoral slates, members are unavoidably asserting that Congress has the authority to overturn elections and overrule state and federal courts. Such objections set an exceptionally dangerous precedent, threatening to steal states’ explicit constitutional responsibility for choosing the President and bestowing it instead on Congress," Cheney wrote.
"This is directly at odds with the Constitution’s clear text and our core beliefs as Republicans. Democrats have long attempted, unconstitutionally, to federalize every element of our nation—including elections. Republicans should not embrace Democrats’ unconstitutional position on these issues," she added.
Cheney raises questions about the proposal from some Republicans to set up a commission to investigate concerns about the election, calling it a "problematic" set up that would take much longer than ten days to wrap up, and potentially delay the inauguration. The memo also exhaustively summarizes the court rulings against the president's legal efforts in the six states Republicans plan to target on Wednesday: Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
-ABC News' Benjamin Siegel