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."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a new letter to Democrats on Saturday, 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 on Monday.

Pelosi thanked fellow Democratic representatives for speaking with her on a conference call Friday and said she was taking their considerations into account. She did not specifically mention voting on impeachment in the letter, though.

"Since that call, I have received scores of communications from Members expressing your views about how we go forward and regarding a strong presence of our Caucus in the Capitol," she wrote. "Over the last few days, I have discussed your views with Constitutional lawyers, both inside and outside the Congress, to consider the parliamentary and constitutional options available to us."

"From what I have heard from Members, and from the deluge that I have received from the public, it is clear that, once again, the Times Have Found Us to save our democracy," Pelosi added in the letter. "We will be proceeding with meetings with Members and Constitutional experts and others. I continue to welcome your comments. I urge you to be prepared to return to Washington this week."

While Democrats are hopeful Republicans will back their effort, none have come out and said they would back the charge as drafted.

Pelosi said at a press conference on Thursday, "If the Vice President and Cabinet do not act [on the 25th Amendment], the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment."

Some Democrats planned to connect with Republican colleagues this weekend to gauge their support and encourage them to back the effort.

-ABC News' Benjamin Siegel

President Donald Trump is leaning toward a legal team led by his current personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, as well as longtime ally Alan Dershowitz if he were to face an impeachment trial in the Senate, sources told ABC News.

Dershowitz was one of a number of lawyers who assisted Trump in his first impeachment trial last January. While he was impeached in the House, he was not convicted by the Senate]().

Lawyers Jay Sekulow and Pat Cipollone are not expected to be involved this time around after working on the president's legal team last year, sources said.

House Democrats discussed impeaching the president in the wake of the siege on the U.S. Capitol, egged on by Trump during a rally hours earlier, on Friday. They circulated the draft of a single article citing "incitement of insurrection" that could be introduced as early as Monday. A full House vote could be held as early as the middle of next week.

Trump would have just nine days left in office on Monday and it's legally murky whether an ex-president can be impeached after leaving the presidency.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders and John Santucci

Vice President Pence will attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, according to a person familiar with his decision.

This comes the day after President Donald Trump tweeted he would not be attending.

On Friday morning, as Pence departed the White House, his press secretary, Devin O’Malley, said, "Vice President Pence and the second lady have yet to make a decision regarding their attendance."

Biden said Friday he would welcome Pence’s attendance, though he hadn't spoken to him about it.

"He's welcome. I think it's important that as much as we can stick to what have been the historical precedence of how and the circumstances of which an administration changes, should be maintained," Biden said. "And so ... the vice president is welcome to come, we would be honored to have him there, and to move forward in the transition."

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders

In an interview on Fox News Monday morning, Republican senatorial candidate David Perdue said that while he and his wife have "repeatedly" tested negative for coronavirus, he is still quarantining after coming into "close contact" last week with a campaign staffer who tested positive and hopes to participate in

"I’m going to participate hopefully tonight by virtually in this rally, but I’m so excited that President Trump is coming again," Perdue said, going on to paint the dire picture of the country if Democrats win.

Asked what he wants to hear the president say Monday, Perdue said: "First of all this is the last opportunity we will have to protect everything that we’ve accomplished in the last four years. The second thing is the last line of defense to stop the Democrats from perpetrating this radical socialist agenda. It’s as simple as that." 

As he did Sunday, Perdue blasted disclosure of the call between Trump and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and defended the president.

"To have a state-wide elected official, regardless of party, tape unknowing -- to tape without disclosing a conversation -- private conversation of the president of the United States and then leaking it to the press is disgusting," Perdue said.

When asked if he was concerned that GOP voters may be discouraged from participating in the aftermath of a general election Republicans continue to contest, Perdue said, "Well that’s what the Democrats want." Trump himself acknowledged post-election chaos may hinder turnout in the runoffs during his call with Raffensperger Saturday -- and blamed the secretary for it.

-ABC News’ Quinn Scanlan