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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Trump exposes costs of loyalty as high-stakes week begins: Analysis
It's going to take at least the first full week of 2021 to settle some of 2020's highest-profile political business.
And what might have been a decent closing series of political acts for Trump could wind up being disastrous -- for himself and for a Republican Party that sees anew what loyalty to the president might cost them.
First up: Control of the Senate. Both Biden and Trump will be in Georgia Monday in advance of the Tuesday runoffs that could make or break the Biden agenda, and also render judgment on Trump's value and utility to Republicans.
Republican victories would ratify the power of Trumpism and mean Senate Republicans would keep control at least in part thanks to the outgoing president. But losses would cement Trump as a liability in battleground states, with his reckless accusations about integrity proving a drag on Republican turnout.
To the latter point, the recording of Trump's weekend conversation with Georgia's Republican secretary of state shows the president more interested in bullying election officials than establishing facts. It casts a new light on efforts by more than 100 House Republicans and a dozen GOP senators to refuse to sign off on finalized Electoral College results on Wednesday.
Trump loses his formal power on Jan. 20, and that won't change as the result of anything that happens this week.
But how this week is remembered could go a long way toward determining how Biden can hope to govern – and how Republicans can pick up the pieces of what Trump will have left them.
-ABC News' Political Director Rick Klein
"The president caused this protest to occur. He's the only one who can make it stop": Chris Christie
Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called on President Donald Trump to ask protesters to leave the Capitol grounds on ABC News Live.
"It’s pretty simple," he said. "The President caused this protest to occur. He's the only one who can make it stop."
"What the vice president just said is not good enough, what the president said is not good enough," Christie added. "The President has to come out and tell his supporters to leave the Capitol grounds, and to allow the Congress to do their business peacefully. Anything short of that is an abrogation of his responsibility."
Christie noted that both Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. had previously spoken to the crowd.
"I don't know that they anticipated this was going to be the result," he said. "But it doesn't matter whether they did or they didn’t. This is the result of their words."