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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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.

-ABC News' Lucien Bruggeman and Joshua Hoyos


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


Trump quiet after Twitter permanently suspends his account

Trump has been quiet Saturday after Twitter announced Friday evening that it had permanently suspended the president's account.

"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them -- specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter -- we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," Twitter wrote in a statement.

Trump's final tweet said he would not be attending Biden's inauguration.

After Twitter's announcement, Politico reported that the president went "ballistic" and “[scrambled] to figure out what his options [were].”

Hours after his suspension, Trump released a statement criticizing the ban and teasing a possible new platform.

"I predicted this would happen," he wrote in part. "We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future. We will not be SILENCED!"

"Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH. They are all about promoting a Radical Left platform where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely," he added.

Trump had attempted to post the same statement on Twitter using the official @POTUS account, but the platform deleted the thread, saying users who are banned cannot post from other accounts.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted Twitter Saturday, comparing the ban of the president to something that would happen in China.

"Silencing speech is dangerous. It’s un-American. Sadly, this isn’t a new tactic of the Left. They’ve worked to silence opposing voices for years. We cannot let them silence 75M Americans. This isn’t the [Chinese Communist Party,]" he wrote on Twitter.

Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley also took to the platform to draw a comparison to China writing, "Silencing people, not to mention the President of the US, is what happens in China not our country. #Unbelievable"

The White House announced Thursday that the president planned to spend the weekend at Camp David before notifying reporters that the trip was canceled. The president has nothing on his schedule Saturday.

-ABC News' Mark Osborne and Conor Finnegan