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
- GOP Rep. Kinzinger: Best thing for the country is Trump to resign
- Pence to attend Biden's inauguration: Source
- Senate Democrat says Cruz, Hawley should resign or 'the Senate must expel them'
- Trump asked Georgia election investigator to 'find the fraud': Source
Senate Democrat says Cruz, Hawley should resign or 'the Senate must expel them'
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, called on the U.S. Senate to expel Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., if the senators refuse to resign in the aftermath of this week's siege on the Capitol.
"Both @HawleyMO and @SenTedCruz have betrayed their oaths of office and abetted a violent insurrection on our democracy," Brown wrote on Twitter. "I am calling for their immediate resignations. If they do not resign, the Senate must expel them."
Both Republican senators have faced bipartisan condemnation for their roles in opposing the ratification of Electoral College votes.
-ABC News' Trish Turner
GOP Sen. Pat Toomey says Trump 'committed impeachable offenses'
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., said Saturday that he believes the president "committed impeachable offenses" after the violent siege on the Capitol this week by a pro-Trump mob.
"I have to say I do think the president’s behavior this week does disqualify him from serving," Toomey said on Fox News.
"I don't know what they are going to send over," he said of the House effort to draw up an article of impeachment. "And one of the things I am concerned about frankly, is whether the House would completely politicize something. I do think the president committed impeachable offenses, but I don't know what's going to land on the Senate floor, if anything," he added.
The Republican senator voted against the objections to counting the electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania this week.
While the senator did not explicitly call for Trump's removal from office, Toomey's comments come amid increased calls by Republicans to hold the president accountable for Wednesday's riot. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., have both called for Trump to vacate the presidency.
West Virginia lawmaker resigns after being charged in Capitol siege
West Virginia Delegate Derrick Evans resigned Saturday after being charged for his involvement in the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol this week.
“The past few days have certainly been a difficult time for my family, colleagues and myself, so I feel it’s best at this point to resign my seat in the House and focus on my personal situation and those I love,” Evans said in a statement.
The West Virginia Republican was taken into custody Friday and charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol Grounds," according to the criminal complaint.
Evans had recorded himself and other supporters of Trump rushing into the Capitol after breaching the security barrier Wednesday. He has since deleted the video from his social media accounts.
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Trump asked Georgia election investigator to 'find the fraud': Source
In December, while a signature match audit was ongoing in one Georgia county, President Donald Trump phoned a chief investigator in Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office asking the official to "find the fraud" and telling this person they would be a "national hero" for it, an individual familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.
The Washington Post was first to report on the lengthy phone call, which occurred before Trump's stunning, hourlong phone conversation with Raffensperger in which the president ranted about baseless allegations of election fraud and pressured Georgia's top elections official to "find" enough votes to deliver him a win in the Peach State.
That call, which took place on Jan. 2, is cited in the draft article of impeachment against the president that Democrats could introduce as early as Monday.
Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs confirmed the call between Trump and the chief investigator took place without offering details, saying only: "The secretary and the secretary of state's office can confirm that the call did happen."
The White House declined to comment.
-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan
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.