CNN legal analyst surprised to learn on the air he's cited by Trump team in Supreme Court appeal: 'I am?'

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig was surprised to discover his comment about Special Counsel Jack Smith was cited by Donald Trump's legal team in their emergency appeal to the Supreme Court on Monday.

Former President Trump is asking the Supreme Court to extend the delay in the trial stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election interference case, arguing that he has presidential immunity to protect him from prosecution.

On CNN Monday night, Honig was asked if he was surprised about being quoted in the brief.

"I‘m learning that right now," Honig admitted before remarking, "I fear what they quoted me on."

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The legal analyst said he had read the brief "quickly" but had missed that he was mentioned in it.

"The Source" host Kaitlan Collins informed him that he was quoted in a footnote in the appeal.

"They cite —Well, it’s in a footnote, but they cite something you wrote, which is that Jack Smith 'never uses the E word,'" [Election],'" Collins relayed in a clip flagged by Mediaite.

Honig, a former federal prosecutor, has been critical of Smith's approach to prosecute Trump before the November election.

He confessed he was "dubious" that the special counsel's motives were free from politics.

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"It’s clear to everyone," he said. "My criticism of Jack Smith is obviously he‘s pushing to get this in before the election. I think for good reason, but there‘s a level of disingenuousness in his refusal to say that‘s why."

Smith "should just say what we all know and say what the vast majority of American people understand to believe is," he insisted.

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