Emails reveal Larry Summers went to Epstein for advice on women. He STILL teaches at Harvard.
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
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Summary
OA1208 - We go beyond the Trump-related content in the latest round of Epstein disclosures by the House Oversight Committee to explore what we can learn from the many people in Jeffrey Epstein's orbit who flattered, patronized, and enabled him. Part 1 of 2.
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Falling Upward: The Surprising Survival of Larry Summers, Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect (7/13/2020)
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Investigation at Yale Law School, Dahlia Lithwick & Susan Matthews, Slate (10/5/2018)
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Report on Sexual Harassment at Yale, Yale Law Women Board (10/2020)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:10.6 | It is not Wednesday. |
| 0:12.2 | Not even close. |
| 0:14.2 | No. But it is opening arguments. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Thomas. |
| 0:16.3 | That over there is real life immigration attorney. |
| 0:18.4 | Matt Cameron. |
| 0:18.9 | How are you doing Matt? |
| 0:19.5 | Well, I've just spent many, many hours reading Jeffrey Epstein's email. So how do you think I'm down? God. |
| 0:25.0 | You need a horror movie where it's going to take over. It's a crime against English, if nothing else. Yeah, what the, what? We'll get there. Okay. Yeah. And Lydia Smith, how are you doing? Hi, doing pretty well because I didn't have to read all of Jeffrey Epstein's emails, but I am going to be reading some of them today. So I'm not looking forward to that, but I am looking forward to spending it with you guys. |
| 0:44.7 | So many ups and downs. |
| 0:45.8 | That's a real rollercoaster. |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.1 | At the Consolition of Knowing, I get to come and talk to you guys about it, which is always a pleasure. |
| 0:51.2 | But I've got to say up front, this is about 22,000 pages. |
| 0:54.3 | I didn't get to read them all. |
| 0:55.2 | I really tried to spot as much as I could. |
| 0:57.2 | I did some searches. We'll link to it. about it, which is always a pleasure. But got to say up front, this is about 22,000 pages. I didn't |
| 0:57.9 | get to read them all. I really tried to spot as much as I could. I did some searches. We'll link to the database where you two can search for your favorite characters and see how they come out. I'm just want to hit some highlights and things that made the media didn't hit quite so much. Got a lot to talk about, some legal thoughts too. I'm sure what we're going to be revisiting this well. And this is probably only, it's been estimated maybe about one or two percent of |
| 0:54.7 | everything that could be coming out. Wow. Oh, my God. Yep, we got many happy hours ahead of us. Yeah, it's a lot. Many of that is just screenshots of things like Virginia Griffey's book. Oh, okay. Just other things like that that are publicly available now, but most of it is emails and texts, and it's pretty hard reading. Yeah, like literally it's hard to read them. Any of it that I've read, I've been like, I don't even understand this isn't words. What is happening? That's been the story of our lives, like, trying to read other people's emails and texts. They always, like, abbreviate the strangest things. They have the weirdest way of, like, using punctuation. |
| 1:13.3 | That was a weird thing to say. I hope people understand. I mean, for the show. For work. It's |
| 1:48.2 | for work. Yeah, like, we mainly spend our time trying to read other people's stuff. |
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