Vice President Mike Pence spoke with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on a call Thursday, sources familiar with the call told ABC News.

The news was first reported by the New York Times.

-ABC News’ Molly Nagle, Justin Gomez and Katherine Faulders

Sources told ABC News that Trump has requested a large sendoff hours before President-elect Biden takes the oath of office Wednesday.

Sources say Trump plans to depart the White House next Wednesday morning, choppering via Marine One to Joint Base Andrews where he is expected to give remarks to supporters and departing members of his administration.

Sources add that Trump has requested the event to have a "military-like feel" though details are still not finalized. The president will then fly down to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida onboard Air Force One with a small number of staffers who will be part of his post-presidency operation, according to the sources.

-ABC News’ John Santucci and Katherine Faulders

During a news conference Friday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the National Mall is temporarily closed to the public through at least Thursday.

Thirteen metro stations inside the security perimeter will also be closed.

Bowser said the National Mall closure came at the request of and in cooperation with the Secret Service and the National Park Service.

The mayor urged Americans to enjoy the inauguration virtually from home this year.

She also discussed the city’s beefed-up security ahead of the inauguration but told D.C. residents she doesn’t expect the security measures currently in place to last too long after Biden takes office.

-ABC News’ Kenneth Moton

The nomination hearing for Biden’s pick for director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, has been postponed. It was originally scheduled for Friday.

A joint statement from Senate Intelligence Committee Acting Chairman Marco Rubio and Vice Chairman Mark Warner on Thursday confirmed the postponement. It did not give specific reasons, but referenced the “unusual circumstances on Capitol Hill.”

Rubio and Warner added that they "look forward to holding a hearing next week" for Haines, but did not list a specific date.

-ABC News’ Allison Pecorin

House Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., began by stressing that Trump's action's last week "demand urgent, clear action by the Congress," and praised House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney and a handful of Republicans for agreeing with Democrats that Trump ought to be impeached.

"This is the daughter of the former Republican whip and former vice president of the United States of America. She knows of what she speaks, and she said this as well, 'There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath of Constitution," he said. "This is not, as Liz Cheney said, just some action. She characterized it as the biggest betrayal of any president of the United States in our history."

Hoyer went on to list GOP Rep. John Katko of New York, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee who Hoyer described as "not some back-bencher on your side of the aisle" and Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, among the five House Republicans who have publicly stated they'll vote to impeach the president.

"Mr. Kinzinger said this," Hoyer said, "If these actions are not worthy of impeachment, then what is an impeachable offense? There is no doubt in my mind that the president of the United States broke his oath and incited this insurrection."

Hoyer said other Republicans who he has talked to "in the past 24 hours" agree the president's actions are impeachable.