September 17, 2018: Hour 2

September 17, 2018: Hour 2

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Republican political strategist Alice Stewart joins Here & Now to talk about how GOP lawmakers and the White House are handling Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school in the early 1980s. Also, nearly 80 percent of Americans use credit cards, and according to new data, credit card debt in the U.S. is at its highest level. And the danger of Hurricane Florence, now a tropical depression, is far from over. The port city of Wilmington, North Carolina, was cut off Monday because of rising floodwaters. Leslie Hudson says the biggest issue for her and other Wilmington residents “is just surviving.” That and more, in hour two of Here & Now’s Sept. 17, 2018 full broadcast.