--- title: Las Vegas Shooting: White House Holds Press Briefing description: Sarah Huckabee Sanders will hold the daily press briefing at the White House Monday. canonical: https://time.com/4965684/white-house-press-briefing-las-vegas-shooting/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-02T17:57:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:41:35.607Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: White House Holds Press Briefing After Las Vegas Shooting og:description: President Trump spoke earlier this morning og:url: https://time.com/4965684/white-house-press-briefing-las-vegas-shooting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18c839a6ed3a4fed/6988dc66ab6d7730bd6afac9/sarah-huckabee-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Holds Daily Press Briefing At The White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: White House Holds Press Briefing After Las Vegas Shooting twitter:description: President Trump spoke earlier this morning twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18c839a6ed3a4fed/6988dc66ab6d7730bd6afac9/sarah-huckabee-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: White House Holds Press Briefing After Las Vegas Shooting  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Oct 2, 2017 5:57 PM UTC  White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders answers reporters' questions during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House August 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders answers reporters' questions during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House August 31, 2017 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Oct 2, 2017 5:57 PM UTC Sarah Huckabee Sanders is scheduled to hold the daily press briefing at the White House Monday, less than 24 hours after the[ deadliest shooting](http://time.com/4964666/madalay-bay-las-vegas-shooting/) in U.S. history occurred in Las Vegas. A 64-year-old gunman, identified by authorities as [Stephen Paddock](http://time.com/4965058/las-vegas-shooting-isis/), opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Festival from the 32nd floor of the [Mandalay Bay hotel](http://time.com/4965095/mandalay-bay-resort-casino-hotel-las-vegas-shooting/) in Las Vegas. At least 58 people were killed and 515 were injured, according to police, though those numbers are not final. Authorities found Paddock dead in his hotel room. [President Trump gave a brief statement](http://time.com/4965168/read-donald-trump-las-vegas-shooting-transcript/) from the White House this morning, where he called for national unity, offered condolences to the families of the victims, and hailed the actions of law enforcement. The briefing is set to begin at 2 p.m., and the President and the First Lady will hold a moment of silence for the victims at 2:45 p.m. Watch on the video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4965684/white-house-press-briefing-las-vegas-shooting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4965684/white-house-press-briefing-las-vegas-shooting/"},"headline":"Watch Live: White House Holds Press Briefing After Las Vegas Shooting","datePublished":"2017-10-02T17:57:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:41:35.607Z","description":"President Trump spoke earlier this morning","url":"https://time.com/4965684/white-house-press-briefing-las-vegas-shooting/","keywords":["livestream","onetime","las vegas shooting"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18c839a6ed3a4fed/6988dc66ab6d7730bd6afac9/sarah-huckabee-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alana Abramson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18c839a6ed3a4fed/6988dc66ab6d7730bd6afac9/sarah-huckabee-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Holds Daily Press Briefing At The White House","caption":"Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Holds Daily Press Briefing At The White House","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/livestream/","name":"livestream"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4965684/white-house-press-briefing-las-vegas-shooting/","name":"Watch Live: White House Holds Press Briefing After Las Vegas Shooting"}}]}] ```