Siobhan Lee

He was Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton.

And he was Harvard's president for five years, starting in 2001.

During his tenure, Epstein gave millions of dollars to the university.

We know Summers kept up a personal correspondence with the late financier even after Epstein's first conviction in 2008.

That continued until 2019, shortly before Epstein's arrest on charges of federal sex trafficking of minors.

Summers hasn't been accused of any criminal wrongdoing, but the emails demonstrate the closeness he had to Epstein.

And what are other faculty there saying?

Yeah, so I've been talking with faculty since these emails came to light in November.

Some applauded Harvard's decision to reopen investigations into Epstein's ties with professors.

Summers' retirement doesn't come as a huge surprise.

Here's Timothy Patrick McCarthy, who's among the faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School.

And McCarthy is referring there to what he called President Trump's full frontal assault on higher ed.

I also talked with Theda Skocpol, a government professor at Harvard.

She told me Summers' departure is also a loss.

Right.

A handful of professors and at least one college president are among the names in the Epstein files.

A math professor at Harvard was just placed on administrative leave.

Bard College, a small liberal arts school in New York, is investigating its longtime president, Leon Botstein, for emails that show a deeper friendship to Epstein.

Each day is bringing new developments.

It's kind of like, what consequences will be next?