'He's looking at everything': Legal expert says Jack Smith's new interviews show he's closing in

Special counsel Jack Smith is ramping up the investigation of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by interviewing election officials in Pennsylvania and New Mexico.

This is a huge indicator that Smith's investigation is going over the entire scheme with a fine tooth comb, argued former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on CNN Friday.

"As we have learned in recent weeks about truly how broad the January 6th investigation is, we now know it's gone into all seven of these battleground states," said anchor Kaitlan Collins. "What does it signify to you as we learn more about this investigation, where it could be going?"

"Two weeks ago, there were questions about just how broadly is Jack Smith looking here, is he looking narrowly at the submission of fake electors?" said Honig. "We now know the answer. He's looking at everything. He's looking at all seven states. He's focusing on all different aspects of the pressure campaign on state and local officials, on Mike Pence, the submission of the fake elector certificates."

In other words, Honig added, "He's doing what prosecutors have to do. He's getting all the information. Then he's got to sit down and winnow it down and figure out, is any of it criminal."

"One thing that's interesting about Al Schmidt, the Republican in Pennsylvania, is he said he was asked about how misinformation on widespread voter fraud impacted officials," said Collins. "That stood out to me, because [Michigan Secretary of State] Jocelyn Benson said the same thing, that she was asked about the impact these lies had on election officials. What would Jack Smith's team be trying to do with that information?"

"We used to sometimes say that building a case is like building a house," said Honig. "If you think of it that way, the misinformation is the foundation. Everything that followed, all these pressure campaigns, all these schemes were all based on a lot of disinformation. The false claim that Donald Trump had won this election and that there was massive fraud. And it's not surprising we're hearing similar things from different state officials in different states because you would want, as a prosecutor, to ask the same slate of questions. If you find yourself getting the same type of answer over and over, that contributes to an argument that this was coordinated, this was intentional, this was a conspiracy."

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