to see if and when a potential indictment will come over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. cnn has learned that the special counsel is still lining up witness interviews. let s bring in cnn s legal analyst elie honig. why? why are they still lining up witness interviews if it seems like or appears like an indictment may be coming soon. to use a phrase the prosecutors love, the investigation is ongoing. you are allowed to continue calling witnesses to continue using a grand jury, even after you return an indictment, so long as there s some other aspect outside the scope of that indictment, so long as you re still investigating some other person or some other charge. and so even if there s witness testimony scheduled for mid-august, late august, we are on the clock right now. this indictment could come at any moment. what do you make of this reporting that we talked about that at a hearing just yesterday it was basically revealed that the questioning in the special counsel s
testified in the special counsel s criminal investigation of trump. well, wolf, this is the way the justice system works. there is a process here, this process is being followed. the special counsel is calling witnesses that were close to the president that had information about what happened january 6th and the events surrounding it and we have to let that process play out. do you expect the former president potentially could soon be facing criminal charges? well, we re just going to have to wait and see. what i ve always said, when the justice system in america works best, justice is blind. it should be blind and it shouldn t matter whether you re the former president of the united states or any other person in america. no one is above or below the law. that is what we are about here in the united states of america. and we have to let that process play out and we have to make sure that we are supporting rule of law and justice. and that means not politicizing the process, not j
hoping to see that report, we ve been following for months now, been calling witnesses, by the way, witnesses, some of whom never appeared before the january six committee. mark meadows, the white house chief of staff, was forced to testify before the fulton county grand jury. lindsey graham, who also called brad raffensperger and pressured him on changing election results, we talked about it at least, he was also testified. these are witnesses whose testimony we ve never seen, did not appear before the general six committee, so a lot of expectation about the report, a lot of anticipation about it, it s clear. by the way, one other point, the judge, judge mike bernie, who oversees the investigation, seemed to want to put out something, some form of a report, perhaps with redactions on recommendations but at least on the fact gathering, so we re going to have to wait and see.
indication we ve had yet directly from fani willis, that she s planning on indictments. so, although either of us were hoping to see that report, we ve been following for months now, been calling witnesses, by the way, witnesses, some of whom never appeared before the january six committee. mark meadows, the white house chief of staff, was forced to testify before the fulton county grand jury. lindsey graham, who also called brad raffensperger and pressured him on changing election results, we talked about it at least, he was also testified. these are witnesses whose testimony we ve never seen, did not appear before the general six committee, so a lot of expectation about the report, a lot of anticipation about it,
calling witnesses, subpoenaing witnesses, this investigation has expanded. it includes threats to election officials, it includes the fake elector scheme, false statements before georgia state lawmakers. now they have written all of this in a report. they don t issue indictments but the report goes to prosecutors and it s expected to include recommendations including who if anyone should receive charges. one key question is when the public will see this special grand jury s report. notably dissolving the grand jury the special grand jury wants the report to be made public. sara murray, cnn, washington. prince harry s much talked about memoir spare is hitting the book stores globally.