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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- Pence to attend Biden's inauguration: Source
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- Trump asked Georgia election investigator to 'find the fraud': Source
Biden to push for immediate release of available COVID-19 vaccine doses
Biden will move to release more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine when he takes office, a departure from the country's current procedure of withholding 50% of the supply to ensure second doses of the two-shot vaccine are available, a transition official said Friday.
“He supports releasing available doses immediately, and believes the government should stop holding back vaccine supply so we can get more shots in Americans' arms now. He will share additional details next week on how his Administration will begin releasing available doses when he assumes office on January 20th,” Biden spokesperson TJ Ducklo said in a statement.
A transition official told ABC News they have faith manufacturers can produce enough vaccines to ensure people can get their second doses in a timely manner, while also getting more people their first doses.
The official also noted the Biden administration has long pledged to use the Defense Production Act as needed to help produce materials to ensure supply.
-ABC News' Molly Nagle and Anne Flaherty
Milley spokesperson confirms calls with Pelosi on nuclear authority
In a short statement, Col. Dave Butler, spokesperson for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed the nation's top Gen. Mark Milley and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the phone.
"Speaker Pelosi initiated a call with the chairman. He answered her questions regarding the process of nuclear command authority," Butler said.
Pelosi told her Democratic colleagues in a letter earlier Friday she reached out to discuss "available precautions" for preventing Trump "an unstable president" from accessing the nuclear launch codes or initiating military hostilities before he is out of office in 12 days.
-ABC News' Matt Seyler
Twitter says any more violations by Trump will result in permanent suspension
A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement Friday: “In line with our statement yesterday, any future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.”
The social media platform on Wednesday removed a video of Trump telling Capitol Hill rioters "we love you" and to "go home," requested the removal of three of Trump's tweets and slapped a 12-hour lock on Trump's account by Wednesday night.
"If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked," the company added in a Tweet on its verified safety account at the time.
A Twitter spokesperson told ABC News on Thursday morning that Trump’s tweets were deleted.
-ABC News' Ben Gittleson
Pelosi spoke to Milley about preventing Trump from nuclear access
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a letter to her Democratic colleagues said she reached out to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley Friday morning to discuss "available precautions" for preventing Trump -- "an unstable president" -- from accessing the nuclear launch codes or initiating military hostilities before he is out of office in 12 days. She doesn't elaborate further on their discussion.
"This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike. The situation of this unhinged President could not be more dangerous, and we must do everything that we can to protect the American people from his unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy," she said in the letter.
Pelosi said she is also still waiting to hear back from Vice President Mike Pence as to whether or not he intends to invoke the 25th Amendment ahead of House Democrats holding a call on their options on removing Trump from office at noon.
"If the President does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action," she wrote.
-ABC News' Mariam Khan
Georgia election official debunks fraud theories Trump raised on call with Raffensperger
Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling, a Republican, at a press conference on what he called "anti-disinformation Monday," ran through major voter conspiracies pushed by Trump, his allies and far-right media outlets and debunked them one-by-one in an effort to restore faith in Georgia's election system.
"The reason I'm having to stand here today is because there are people in positions of authority and respect who have said their vote didn't count and it's not true," Sterling said, stressing to Georgians that their votes count ahead of critical runoffs in the state which will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
"It's Whac-A-Mole again. It is Groundhog Day again. I'm going to talk about the things I've talked about repeatedly for two months, but I'm going to do it for one last time," Sterling said, adding he "screamed" at the radio upon hearing audio of the phone call between Trump and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger because theories Trump questioned have already been "thoroughly debunked."
For example, Sterling, responding to those who claim there were roughly 2,500 people who voted without being registered, said, "Let's just be clear about this: you can't do it!" He said, "So that number is zero," going on to debunk other theories.
Asked if he believes, as some have said, that Trump's phone call was an attack on democracy, Sterling said he'd leave others to make that decision before adding he felt it was "out of place."
"I found it to be something that was not normal -- out of place -- and nobody I know who would be president would do something like that to a secretary of state," Sterling said.
Asked about Raffenperger's desire to have the phone call recorded and whether he was concerned about anything improper being said or needing to release it later, Sterling said it was recorded "out of an abundance of caution"
"I think given the environment we're in right now, the political situation that we're in, the history of the president, knowing that he sometimes doesn't necessarily characterize things as they might have actually occurred, it was out of abundance of caution," Sterling said.
"I'm sure the president's side may have recorded it, too. They may have been the ones who leaked part of that, too," he added.