CNBC's Kayla Tausche reports Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is now working closely with the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Mayor Bower to respond to the situation in Washington, D.C., by sending members of the Virginia National Guard along with 200 Virginia State Troopers. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/2NGeIvi

The National Guard and state forces responded at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after pro-Trump rioters overran the building during the Electoral College vote count.

The Washington D.C. National Guard force of about 1,100 was mobilized to help federal law enforcement tamp down the insurrection, according to chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman. The Department of Justice will lead the federal law enforcement response, Hoffman said.

Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller said he coordinated with congressional leaders to active the National Guard and assist officers with taking back the Capitol.

“We are prepared to provide additional support as necessary and appropriate as requested by local authorities,” he said in a statement Wednesday. “Our people are sworn to defend the constitution and our democratic form of government and they will act accordingly.”

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam also said he would send his state’s National Guard along with 200 state troopers to the Capitol. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan added that he told the Maryland National Guard to send a force to the federal legislature.

Both Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office asked for the National Guard to respond, two sources told NBC. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the guard was “on the way along with other federal protective services” on Wednesday afternoon.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., told NBC News she spoke to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley. She said that by sending the National Guard the government aims to “bring the Capitol complex back under control with as little bloodshed as possible.”

Protesters spurred by President Donald Trump’s calls to overturn the 2020 presidential election entered the Capitol with relative ease Wednesday afternoon despite efforts by U.S. Capitol Police to stop a surge toward the floors of the legislature. Photos from reporters in the Capitol at one point showed officers in an armed standoff behind a barricade as rioters tried to enter the House chamber.

The breach forced lawmakers, some of whom had to don gas masks to travel through clouds of tear gas, to evacuate to secure locations. As the government tried to take back control of the Capitol, an FBI swat team was among the forces entering the building, according to an NBC News video.

The breach of the Capitol stopped the formal congressional count of President-elect Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory over Trump. Dozens of Republicans in Congress, backed by the president, had started to challenge state results based on unfounded accusations of widespread fraud.

Trump spoke to his supporters Wednesday and again lied that he had won the election before they descended upon the Capitol. As rioters swarmed the building, Trump tweeted, “No violence!”

He later told his supporters to “go home” — even as he reiterated the election lies that brought them to siege the Capitol in the first place.

Democrats and many Republicans had urged Trump to put an end to the siege.

“I call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward,” Biden said on Wednesday afternoon.

In a joint statement, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on Trump “to demand that all protesters leave the U.S. Capitol and Capitol Grounds immediately.”

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