while jordan was forced to grow up in a juvenile detention center. chris brown drove 230 miles round trip every day to see his son. >> looking back now, i don't know what i would have done without him. >> reporter: chris says he did consider the possibility that jordan may have shot kenzie. >> i gave him every opportunity. jordan, listen, if something happened, accidents happen, buddy. if something happened, tell me, i'm not going to be mad at you, i'm your dad, i'm never not going to be your dad. i'm never not going to be here every day. >> what did he say? >> never, never changed his story. maintained his innocence throughout, from day one. >> obviously the police believe that you killed kenzie. did you kill kenzie? >> no. >> reporter: life on the inside was tough. but there were good moments, like his 12th birthday party. >> it was like the best day i ever had. because i hadn't seen my friends in so long. they all came up. we were there a couple hours. >> reporter: jordan attended classes but says he was mainly self-taught, reading books with a dictionary by

there's a murderer walking amongst us that has been overlooked. >> jordan brown, meanwhile, is finallyman. no longer a terrified 11-year-old boy. during jordan's long incarceration, he says he maintained a 3.9 gpa, taught himself thousand play guitar, he also became a pretty good basketball player. released from detention when he was 18, through it all he says he harbors no ill will. >> i'm not angry, i think the whole, like, what happened and the way it happened is bs. >> there's still some people who will never be convinced. kensi's family. >> i'm heartbroken. my heart goes out to them. >> through the years of bitter controversy, one truth never up for debate. kensi and her unborn child will never be forgotten. >> i still love her, i miss her every day. >> today jordan brown is determined to leave his past behind, to focus on college and brighter days ahead. >> that song i just played is called she talks to angels by the black crows. >> what do you want to tell the world about you? >> that i'm innocent. that's like the only thing i really want people to know. >> next, the whale watch

jordan brown once dubbed america's littlest monster. >> this is the mugshot that was taken. >> i wasd classic gets the real treatment. a first look at the upcoming live action remake of "the lion king." "nightline" will be right back.

and elise jordan, the thing that is so striking is donald trump actually believes by talking about maraud brownmehow this is his strategy to make the gender gap smaller and shooting at 9-year-old girls if they throw rocks at fully armed u.s. marines or soldiers? how clueless is this guy? >> well, just, any time donald trump wants to claim that he knows what women want, he probably should just stop right then and there. because he really has never nailed it. >> no. >> this has been such a debacle in that the administration puts out so many false claims about what's actually going on, ignoring the root cause of the problem, the incredible poverty and instability that's teaming in these central american companies causing them to flee for their lives in hopes of a better life. the whole debate gets distorted. they aren't coming up with a solution. they use american troops as props seeking to deploy up to 15,000 troops on the u.s. border before thanksgiving and christmas? it's just a misuse -- >> unbelievable. >> -- of american forces and also for donald trump to promote the idea that they should be

brown. steelers have won four straight now 23-16. they win. thomas was traded from the broncos to the texans this week. today he was back with 61 yards. and jordane. fast forward with three seconds left in the game 51 yard field goal for the win, no good. texans started 0 and 3. they're now 6 and 3. 19-17 the final. threw for four interceptions and one touch down to the other team. yes, that is pick six by mr. jerome backer. and that was the only touch down in this game. jets still had a chance to drive down the field for a tie, but did i mention those four and t them. that ended it. dolphins win 13-6 the final. never liked those turnovers and interceptions. >> coming up after abc 7 news at 11:00 stick around for our more in common television special. instead of focusing on political divides it features inspiring stories of people coming together despite their differences in cities and towns across america. that's right after abc 7 news at midnight. >> it feels past midnight, very past midnight. >> well, it would have been yesterday, but today it's 11:57, and that's it for tonight. i'm eric thomas. >> and i'm dion lim. from all of us here, thank

jordan davis. you know, the mayor is saying 25% of zero is still zero. well, here's the counter point. only 13.5% of inclusionary means thousands of black and brown people displaced from their homes and forced into either homelessness or the east bay. these projects that would be covered by this legislation are those that are controversial for a reason. and we housing advocates aren't just here to delay projects for giggles. there are real issues at play. we need to stop using elementary school economics when it comes to housing production inclusionary. it hurts far more than it helps. in fact, i want to conclude with some numbers here. 35. the percent of affordable housing at trans-bay, we can do better. 40, the percent of affordable housing at mission rock. 215, the percent of rena goals for market rate housing. 85,117, margin of victory for prop c in raw votes. 38.5, the percent of victory by percentage. and 2546, how many votes mayor won last june. 20,210, the number of jenkin supporters who put her over the top. what am i getting at? reject this, and which is rammed through way too quickly and tell mayor breed to start being a mayor for all

kate brown is the projected winner against knute buehler, the republican there, winning by 6 points. our experts are up late night with us. it's now 4:04 a.m. maria therese is a kumar. elise jordans an msnbc political analyst, the co-host of "the words matter" podcast. susan del percio is an nbc political analyst. and down at the end of the table we pulled up a chair for him real special like, jon meacham, the presidential biographer and historian, also an msnbc contributor back in d.c. jonathan lemire for the associated press and an msnbc political analyst. also with us adrien elrod, strategic director of communications for hillary clinton's 2016 campaign. an outstanding probably a better panel than i deserve at 4:00 in the morning. thank you all for being here. john, you brought some dry-cleaning with you. >> did. >> you've taken some notes on it. >> did some research. >> that's a dry-cleaning cardboard. >> it's from marsha blackburn's statement. >> let's start in tennessee, the state where you live. surprised by the result and how quickly it was called? >> surprised by the margin. >> yeah. >> tennessee has a tradition, a complicated state. so it's 4:05. let's talk about 1860.