tonight my exclusive sit down with sheikh mubarak. bahrain is the regional home for the u.s. vy's fifth fleet. the small gulf country is grappling with its own citizens arab spring aspirations and there has been violence. the sheikh defends the family's crackdown on protesters. my rear interview with ted, slap shot carter. commander of the strike group twelt. he is on the uss enterprise and is in charge of making sure millions of barrels of oil get you there the straight every day despite threats from iran to close it down. we talk about what is takes to keep the commercial waterway flowing. and how cuts in washington could affect the navy's mission in the entire persian gulf region. my interview with an outspoken critic of opec and a billionaire who made billions betting across the energy sector from natural gas to oil. pickens thinks the u.s. should spend less time patrolling the strait of hormuz and back more efforts to become energy self-reliant. his plan? invest in the development of north american shale and natural gas resources. i spoke exclusively with sheikh mubarak,

tonight my ex-chruf sieve interview with sheikh mubarak. why they are fighting to keep the strait of hormuz open and the brutal crack down in the kingdom. this is critical keeping iran contained. the kingdom's record on human rights is nothing to be part of. is the partnership worth it? we'll get reaction from foreign policy expert and harvard professor nick burns. >>> are you better off today than four years ago. it is the question of the day of the as the curtain rises on the democratic national convention. a majority of americans say no. i things as bad as they feel though? we're crunching the numbers here. even when they say it's not it is always about money. melissa: it is good to be back. all right. let's take a look at the day's market headlines of the decline in u.s. manufacturing and construction activity sent stocks sharply to the downside in early trading but the major indices recovered from session lows. optimism from potential steps from the e consider. b this fall, the european debt crisis lowered investors anxiety. the blue-c

with more emphasis on what comes about mubarak as opposed to, we move out, an ally of the united states, and replace it with a guy who would like to have the blind sheikhbomb my city, was responsible for the attack in 1993 on the world trade center. you don't think things like that destabilize the middle east and make people wonder in the middle east about president obama's judgment? >> governor romney said he would support democratic values. on another hand saying he would basically fund candidates to win that are friendly to the united states. how is that espousing democratic values? isn't it a little inconsistence there? >> not at all. first of all, take a look what was going on in egypt and realize not netly democratic values espoused. if i see the islamic brotherhood, i don't tear what face they're puts on, i've studied this and investigated and prosecuted for 35 years. you tell me the islamic brothers have changed their stripes? you're too naive to the protecting the united states of america. >> the muslim brotherhood. >> yeah. we didn't look behind this enough. we didn't look behind wa we were creating. it doesn't mean it wasn't going to happen,

sheikh to be released from prison during one of his first addresses there as president. you've spent so much time in this country, you've seen the entire revolution play out between the time where mubarakas still in power until now. just from your reporting on the ground, what differences do you see between the crowds you maybe saw 18 months, six months ago versus the ones that you see on the streets today? >> reporter: the biggest difference is just what they are doing here, jenna. eighteen months ago you walked down, you said i'm an american, they said we love america, we love freedom, welcome to our country, we want democracy, help us kick hosni mubarak out. now you go down into the crowd, we aren't going down. now the crowd is chanting "death to america." "we hate america." and they're attacking the u.s. embassy. it is a totally, totally different crowd. some of our other journalist colleagues, not americans but who appear to be western, say they have been harassed down in this crowd in very, very bad shape as people are throwing rocks at just about anybody they can, jenna. it's a very different crowd, clearly a lot more anger out here than you had, and that anger directed now at t