Tsk tsk, you forget I do this for a living. There would indeed be rodent blood on the floor, but it would be done quietly, and you wouldn't even see it coming until the pounce. Give me my own preferred format of Gerbil and I, 1 on 1, 20 questions, and for the first 10 you, might think I was his friend as he built himself his own trap, 5 more would be spent tightening the noose and letting him choose the manner of his own demise, and we wouldn't get to the good stuff until the final handful of payoff questions.
But the current format is there to protect Gerbil. I've never heard of whatever that law school is that he is supposed to have come from, but if it had any mock court training at all he'll know its virtually impossible to pin somebody down with a single question, especially one asked by amateurs or people on your bosses payroll. He also spent time working on a political campaign, which is a great place to hone your stay on message/buzzword technique (although I doubt he was senior enough to be interacting with media). And then he's got 8 years working as an agent, junior grade, which if nothing else should teach you how to just flat lie. Getting him to do anything but turn every solitary question back onto a set list of predesigned talking points will be a challenge to say the least. Who knows, maybe it would have helped to send a couple of fans who would actually physically carry in pitchforks and torches just to stad in the back of the room and make him sweat.