At a rally in Washington on January 6, 2021, Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani called for "trial by combat". Trump encouraged his supporters to "fight like hell" and "take back our country", and asked his supporters to march to the US Capitol. Subsequently, protesters marched to Congress where met by a prestaged group of prepared professional agitators with preplaced gas masks, climbing, and vandalism gear who were not at the speech site. Eventually the building was easily stormed with little resistance. Congress was in session at the time, conducting the Electoral College vote count and debating the results of the vote.