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.

Cecily Strong returned to “Saturday Night Live” in the cold open, reprising her role as Jeanine Pirro. The sketch mocked Pirro’s recent appointment as interim US Attorney for Washington, D.C., and featured James Austin Johnson as President Donald Trump.

Colbert said President Trump’s latest appointment from the Fox News roster “drank a whole bottle of champagne, and then someone told her the news.”

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A recurring gag for Strong’s impersonation of Pirro would be to spit wine in the face of Colin Jost during the “Weekend Update” segment. A first it seemed like the joke wouldn’t be revisited but Jost also made a cameo in the cold open, where he played defence secretary Pete Hegseth, who Strong’s Pirro said was her “old drinking buddy”.

President Donald Trump named Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host, to serve as the interim U.S. attorney for D.C. She replaces embattled nominee Ed Martin.

Charlie Kirk on Friday compared the Senate confirmation process to a “financial colonoscopy” during a discussion about Jeanine Pirro’s potential permanent appointment as US Attorney for the District of Columbia.