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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is preparing to deliver a speech Saturday on rebuilding the “arsenal of freedom” at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California.
Ahead of the keynote address, Hegseth shared a video on X touring facilities in California.
“The era of vendor-locked, prime-dominated, closed architecture, cost plus is over. We’re going to compete. We’re going to move fast. We’re going to do open architecture. We’re going to innovate. We’re going to scale. We’re going to do it at cost. Because this is a commitment to a mission,” Hegseth said in the video.
“Whether you’re a vet or not who served already, all of you are serving the Department of War, the American people and the arsenal of freedom,” Hegseth said. “I need you to understand that, yes, we’re here for the warfighters who are out there pulling triggers on the behalf of our nation right now. Everybody here’s touched someone who serves at some point. But they can’t succeed without you.”
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War Secretary Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)
The secretary told those building the Department of War’s arsenal that American troops would not be able to do what’s required of them “in far-flung places, in dangerous moments, in the dead of night without the capabilities that you will underwrite for them.”
“So, this arsenal of freedom is built not just with men and women in camouflage. But it’s in folks in civilian clothes all across the country who are also putting in the work 24/7, to out-compete, out-innovate and out-manufacture our opponents,” Hegseth declared.
Hegseth’s speech is scheduled to begin around 2:50 p.m. ET, according to a Reagan National Defense Forum schedule. He will be joined at the event by other leaders from the U.S. military.
“We are rebuilding the Arsenal of Freedom,” Hegseth wrote on X alongside the video.
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War Secretary Pete Hegseth takes a question from a reporter during a news conference at the Pentagon June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images )
The event is being held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
“The Reagan National Defense Forum (RNDF) brings together leaders from across the political spectrum and key stakeholders in the defense community, including Members of Congress, current and former Administration officials, senior military leadership, industry executives, technology innovators, and thought leaders,” the Forum said on its website.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives for a news conference at the Pentagon June 22, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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“Their mission is to review and assess policies that strengthen America’s national defense in the context of the global threat environment.”
Notable speakers at the event so far on Saturday included Russell Vought, the director of the United States Office of Management and Budget; Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., who is the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee; Emil Michael, the U.S. under secretary of war for research and engineering; and Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
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The Arizona Cardinals requested head coaching interviews with at least 14 candidates — more than nearly any other organization. But among those 14, the group of legitimate options is dwindling fast.
Two Cardinals’ candidates have already been hired elsewhere: Robert Saleh to the Titans and Jeff Hafley to the Dolphins. Three others have not yet been reported to conduct interviews with the Cardinals.
That leaves nine coaches who have both been interviewed by the Cardinals and who remain available.
Then there are the coaches who interviewed with the Cardinals but have since progressed in other teams’ searches — but not with the Cardinals. That group includes Anthony Weaver, Matt Nagy, Jesse Minter and Raheem Morris (as a defensive coordinator). All indications are that those coaches are unlikely to be finalists in Arizona —barring shifting circumstances elsewhere.
As such, the Cardinals have five coaches who currently appear to be frontrunners for the job. Here are those five candidates:
The first four names on that list all coach teams who are still alive in the playoffs, meaning that they cannot be brought back for an in-person interview until Jan. 26, after the conclusion of conference championship games.
Brady, meanwhile, only interviewed with the Cardinals on Jan. 20 — one day after the Bills fired head coach Sean McDermott in a surprise move. His candidacy has only just begun.
If those coaches are indeed the Cardinals’ preferred choices, it helps to explain why they have not yet conducted a second interview with any candidate.
But for now, the story of this hiring cycle has been the Cardinals’ status as a team on the outside looking in.
They weren’t close on John Harbaugh, with whom they only conducted a preliminary phone call. They were never publicly connected to Kevin Stefanski. Likewise, with Mike McDaniel, who prefers a great offensive coordinator job to a subpar head coach opening. McDermott has not yet been requested by the Cardinals and is said not to be interested in a rebuild.
Then there’s Saleh, who was set for a second interview with the Cardinals on Jan. 20 — only to snub them to accept the Titans job instead. It was a move that summed up the first two weeks of the Cardinals’ offseason.
A man accused of planning to carry out a mass shooting at a popular Colorado ski resort is also now facing multiple charges related to fentanyl distribution that resulted in the deaths of two Steamboat Springs residents.
Nathaniel ‘Nathan’ Zabik, 44, of unincorporated Breckenridge, was arrested by the Summit County Sheriff’s Office earlier this month after he allegedly made threats to commit a mass shooting at the resort in Facebook posts and private messages. The Steamboat Springs Police Department said on Monday that Zabik is part of a group of people who allegedly sold fentanyl that killed two people in Steamboat Springs.
Steamboat Springs police say Zabik, along with Benjamin Tabor, 48, of Avon, and Matthew Bentley, 37, of Riverbank, California, sold fentanyl that later killed at least two people. All three now face multiple charges, including distributing fentanyl resulting in death, which police described as “the most severe drug felony under Colorado law.”
If convicted, the suspects face a sentence of eight to 32 years in prison. If charged and convicted federally, that charge carries a possible sentence of 20 years to life in prison.
Steamboat Springs police say they identified the suspects after a months-long investigation, but “out of respect and compassion for the victims’ families, their names are being withheld.” The suspects were identified and arrested by a task force comprising multiple agencies across Colorado and the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office in California.
In Zabik’s case regarding the alleged threats against Breckenridge Ski Resort, he faces the following charges:
He’s being held in the Summit County Detention Facility on a $25,000 cash-only bond.
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