>> she is his watson to her sherlock holmes. she keeps him somewhat normal and kicks him in the butt when she thinks something is wrong. she is a steady influence but is frustrating. she is good at her job but wants to be better. she understand she's better than she will ever be it's always important when you have a dual like this and their better together than they would be separately alex jamison is a really critical i don't think amos decker could be decker without her. >> the fbi has been in a bit of trouble lately. accusations flying, as someone who has worked with this agency for a long time, what is your view of the public perceptions and arguing over the role of the fbi? >> everything i've dealt with without exception are apolitical and dedicated. their jobs are hard and tough. they don't have time for political grandstanding. they're just trying to solve cases. in this criticism, i'm not an agent but it really hits me. in the bureau doesn't deserve this. i'm not saying you can't criticize institutions, you can criticize

too bad sherlock holmes isn't alive to figure out whether or not donald trump is a racist on this. >>attern here and not the first time the president used -- set aside the n-word and an audio tape of that. as jeff says, in the public record already is some fairly alarming language. one of president trump's favorite is to refer to maxine waters as low iq. he uses it because in his rallies he gets -- it's a big applause line for him. >> it is and of course, the president is mistaken about the level of intellect of anyone, particularly african-americans and not only not a novel concept a president trying to attack the intellect of a black american, you can go back as far as roosevelt talking about the perfectly stupid race of the negro. think about literacy tests used to try to remove us from the franchise of being able to vote and you see this time and time again about the attack on intellect. what you are seeing now as well is the attack on the intellect of the entire american people that would not already realize a foregone conclusion how to describe him in his comments in the ways in

what happened was, in my opinion, breaking this down, sherlock holmes style. okay, this was dangle as though it might be some opposition research, negative information. and then when the meeting actually took place, it had nothing to do with that okay? >> okay. >> so, if you are a judge looking at all of this right now you are back at square one just saying okay, somebody had a meeting. nothing actually came out of that meeting, that made any material difference in terms of, you know, basically the trump campaign, i hate to use the word colluding because it doesn't mean much. but conspiring as judge nap tell us. conspiring. basically take this, steal this from hillary clinton. all of the experts have broken it down into two separate discussions. one how collusion is not in and of itself a criminal offense. that's correct. the other part is well, if there are other aspect to this involving exchange of money, things like that. and there has been zero evidence of any of that, then it's a different discussion. >> trish: one thing i want to point out before you go,

. >> host: this is the home of agatha christie and sherlock holmes so you would think thrillers of those been a part of the british popular -- tragic they really haven't. crime fiction is big over there and always has been but i don't know what happened. this year for the first time ever it overtook general literature. i think maybe that's one reason. >> host: we will get into how this all started which of the caller. let's listen to what he has to say. brian is in sioux city iowa. welcome to the conversation with david baldacci. >> caller: good morning. my question is about his memory condition that you set start because of injuries suffered in football. this is perfect recall something we can recall things before the entry perfectly or is the perfect recall only triggered by things happen after thoughtful entry? >> guest: a great question and the answer is it's different for different people. with amos decker it can be before the injury occurred to him. we all have memories of things that happen to us from day one moving up, but sometimes our memory is nothing good about bringing it ba