This is the textbook example of why a defense lawyer tells you not to talk to the police, even if you have nothing to hide. It is also a textbook example of whoever the other side’s lawyer is (says this is cross exam) not preparing their witness. A lawyer doing his/her job properly tells that witness that their job on cross exam is to answer the question asked and nothing more. Her response just made that lawyer’s point so much more potent than without her excessive ramblings.

I’m also surprised nobody objected to the question as to why Pfizer doesn’t just use employees. Bad lawyering. That calls for speculation. She isn’t a Pfizer manager or executive and the only thing she could offer would be purely speculative or conjecture.