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CBS News reports: The Senate on Saturday approved the nomination of Jeanine Pirro, an ardent loyalist of President Trump and a Fox News fixture, confirming the cable news personality to a top prosecutor post in Washington, D.C. Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, was confirmed in a 50-45 vote. She has been in the job as U.S. Attorney …

CNN reports: The Justice Department charged Elias Rodriguez, 31, with federal murder charges in connection to the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staff members. At least one of the charges — using a firearm to commit murder — carries the possibility of the death penalty. The Justice Department levied the same capital charge earlier this year against Luigi Mangione, …

“Hi everyone, it’s Judge Jeanine. I’m at the water cooler in the United States Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. And you may recall that the United States gave something like $44 billion a year through USAID for things like dance classes in Wuhan, China, and Sesame Street in Iraq. “But here in the United States, in the United States Attorney’s …

NBC News reports: Two staff members of Israel’s embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot dead outside the district’s Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night, officials said. The suspect shouted “Free, free Palestine” while in police custody and “implied” that he committed the shooting, Washington Police Chief Pamela Smith said. “We’ll be doing everything in our power to keep all citizens …

From the Washington Post editorial board: On her Fox News show, she championed Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat. In documents obtained by Dominion Voting Systems as part of discovery in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News (which led to a $787.5 million settlement), Pirro’s executive producer at the time referred to her as a “reckless maniac” during an …

“Grand slam, home run, hat trick pick.  I am beyond pleased with President Trump’s decision to make Jeanine Pirro the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. “She is exactly the right person at the right time to take on this responsibility. She brings to the table wide and deep legal experience combined with a passion for justice and …

“I am pleased to announce that Judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Jeanine was Assistant District Attorney for Westchester County, New York, and then went on to serve as County Judge, and District Attorney, where she was the first woman ever to be elected to those positions. “During her time in …

ABC News reports: President Donald Trump is strongly considering installing Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The potential selection comes as Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday that Ed Martin, who is currently serving as D.C.’s interim top prosecutor, …

“Donald Trump knows where the short hairs are and he knows how to pull them. Donald Trump does not back off anything. And right now we’ve got countries that are willing to deal, countries that are willing to negotiate. Countries that are calling him up, flying over here to deal with him.  “Let’s not be so quick to forget where …

“This is what Donald Trump ran on and he’s delivering. And you know what? I don’t really care about my 401(k) today. You know why? Not that I can afford it, not that it isn’t important, not that I’m not at a point in my life when I should be worried about my 401(k) because I am, but this is …

“I’m hearing that they’re having trouble even coordinating with the people in California, and that you know, this has to be incredibly disturbing to people who pay some of the highest taxes in the nation. To have empty fire hydrants and empty reservoir, no water pressure and you know, it’s just, it is just a disaster. And, you know how …

Media Matters has the transcript: JEANINE PIRRO (HOST): This is ineptitude at the highest levels, and her arrogance on top of her ineptitude makes her a candidate for being fired. Well, I think she’s a DEI hire. But that’s just me — go ahead. KENNEDY (HOST): She’s not only a bad person, she also gives female cops a horrible name. …

“This guy was obviously looking for notoriety. And good, he’s got it. Now, he’s a prep school kid. He’s politically connected in Maryland. But this guy’s not ready. He’s way too soft. He’s gonna get annihilated on the inside and good. If he’s not gonna get the death penalty, maybe someone will do him justice behind bars. That’s all I …

“You can make fun of Donald Trump, but he at least explains more than Kamala Harris that we are sitting on gold and energy, and when we’ve got energy and we don’t have to buy it from other countries that we can use it to build things, use it to develop things, to drive cars, to heat our homes, to …

“Let me tell you something about the problem with the weaponization of the Department of Justice, which is the department behind this indictment. “Once they start weaponizing against political opponents, you then question, even someone like me, will question whether or not this is something that was motivated based upon the fact that Mayor Adams was critical of the White …

“What is her foreign policy? This is where the president has his most impact. You have a lot of room to maneuver there as commander-in-chief. We don’t know who she is. We don’t know what she believes. She’s gonna get paralyzed in the Situation Room while the generals have their way with her.” – Fox host Jesse Watters, drawing immediate …

The Daily Beast reports: Right-wing attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris ever since she declared her candidacy for president have honed in on her ethnicity, her laugh, her past relationships, and now, thanks to Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, whether or not she is sober. “Her past as a DA was a disaster, and I’m ready to speak about that …

“We have seen too much in this country, and for them to stand there and say, ‘Stop with this broad brush approach’– let me tell you something, if we don’t have a broad brush approach — and if you can rebut it, I’m happy to let anyone in — but you have to start proving that these people are not …

Mediaite reports: “The whole idea that, you know, they’re out there saying this election is not about age, Joe and the other guy are about the same age, even for the debate is– as Jesse is saying, they’re gonna be seated,” said Pirro on the show. “We don’t even get to see them walk in. They’ll be seated so that, …

“I want to believe that Americans believe in justice. And I think that in their gut, they realize that there is something that is very wrong here. We have gone over a cliff in America. This verdict is a verdict of someone who was forced to fight a 1,000 pound gorilla with both hands tied behind his back. “This was …