TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Which left Trump ordered to pay $25 million to former students.</s>ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN, NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL: He's a showman, and he doesn't seem to think there is any such thing as a bad headline where he's concerned.</s>FOREMAN: When Trump became president, Schneiderman's crusade intensified. He led the legal charge against the travel ban, softening of pollution standards, health care reform rollbacks, the DACA immigration dispute and much more.</s>SCHNEIDERMAN: I have developed a bit of a reputation since January as a guy who sues Donald Trump and the federal government.</s>FOREMAN: Many Democrats considered Schneiderman the tip of the spear for possible state action against Trump and his cronies if special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe came up empty or the president started handing out federal pardons, a move for which Schneiderman was laying groundwork.</s>FOREMAN: An interim attorney general has already been named, but the big question is, who will really get the job next fall when it comes up for election again? No surprise, Democrats are buzzing about several candidates who would almost certainly go after the president with just as much ferocity -- Jake.</s>JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: One hopes that Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer are not among them.</s>FOREMAN: Well, not on the short list.</s>TAPPER: All right, Tom Foreman, thank you so much. Want to thank Tom Foreman and Brynn Gingras. And let's bring the panel. Schneiderman was seen as a plan B for the Mueller probe. The big question, does his departure turn up the heat on the special counsel? I will get your answers right after this quick break.
New York Attorney General Resigns.