CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said Friday that Donald Trump Jr. Don John Trump'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic requests pardon from Trump: 'Be my hero please' Zaid Jilani discusses Trump's move to cancel racial sensitivity training at federal agencies Trump International Hotel in Vancouver closes permanently MORE needs to be “worried” by Michael Cohen’s guilty plea to charges that he made hush-money payments at President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE's behest before the 2016 presidential election.

Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and self-proclaimed “fixer,” pleaded guilty to bank fraud and campaign finance violations earlier this month in federal court in New York and implicated Trump in writing, claiming the president orchestrated the payments made to two women who said they had extramarital affairs with the real estate mogul.

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“When Michael Cohen pleaded guilty a couple weeks ago to making the hush money payments, the papers referenced Executive-1 and Executive-2 within the Trump Organization. Either of those are Donald Trump Jr., he could be in trouble,” Honig said on CNN.

“He also has potential exposure for lying to Congress about the Moscow project, which is another thing that Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to, so we could see indictments there,” he said.

Cohen has also pleaded guilty to a charge of lying to Congress about a Trump Tower project in Moscow. He has been cooperating for months with special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE in the probe into 2016 election interference.

Honig has frequently provided commentary on the Mueller probe for CNN and other news outlets and previously served as the director of New Jersey's division of criminal justice.

He predicted indictments could be coming for Trump Jr., who has yet to be charged with any crimes but is thought to be a key figure in the Mueller investigation.