I've spent years studying how people communicate under pressure. And there is no pressure like being questioned under oath. Every evasion, every deflection, every moment of crumb throwing and safer ground and buying time is amplified and exposed in a way that ordinary conversation never quite manages.

In this episode of How Words Work with Jack Fox, Jack takes everything the series has covered and shows it happening in real time. The cross examination of Mila Adams in the Stefon Diggs assault case is one of the most instructive pieces of communication under pressure you will ever hear. Not because she lied. But because the patterns in her words, the evasions, the avoidance, the crumb throwing, the failure to answer simple yes or no questions, did something very specific to her credibility. Something the jury heard. Something you're going to hear too.

Diggs was found not guilty. This episode is not about what happened between them. It's about what her words did to her credibility on the stand. And what you can learn from it.

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