"Anyone who actually knows me knows that had nothing to do with my departure,” Brand told Fox News on Tuesday. Brand spoke with Fox News during her last afternoon as associate attorney general, the No. "I never had any reason to think that the Mueller probe would come to me, and even if it had, it has nothing to do with why I left the department," Brand said. Mueller presently is supervised by Rosenstein, since Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation last year. "Of course I will miss my colleagues here at the department," Brand said.

Source: Fox News February 21, 2018 20:04 UTC