The Saturday Night team took aim at Trump's nomination for D.C. U.S. attorney and the defense secretary in the latest episode.

The current Fox News host has not yet been nominated as the capital city’s full-time federal prosecutor, but Senate Republicans seem ready to get behind her candidacy as Ed Martin's replacement.

Live" alum Cecily Strong returned to the show to play Jeanine Pirro, Trump's pick as interim top prosecutor in DC.

New Interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro's ex-husband, Albert Pirro, was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2021. Here's everything to know about Jeanine Pirro's ex-husband, Albert Pirro.

Live cast member Cecily Strong crashed this week’s cold open, reprising her iconic role as Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro. Strong’s Pirro walked on stage holding just her purse, but soon revealed its content: a bottle of red wine.

Johnson’s Trump called “Pirro” a “great legal mind,” adding that she had the “most important quality I look for in a lawyer — she’s on TV.”

President Donald Trump says he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital after abandoning his first pick for the job.

Trump also noted that, in the worst-case scenario for Leo XIV, he could “send J.D. back to do his thing,” alluding to the fact that the previous Catholic leader, Pope Francis, died shortly after meeting with Vice President J.D. Vance.

No other U.S. attorney nominee is known to have come under a federal probe after being caught on tape scheming to catch a cheating spouse in the act.