Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spent the first half of CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley discussing the various blunders by the Obama administration in handling the Ebola disaster.

Cruz said what is most needed from President Obama is "serious leadership to protect the American people." Making this a partisan issue is antithetical to protecting US citizens, Cruz reasoned.

Crowley defended the president, saying that Obama is not a doctor and is just listening to what experts are telling him. She asked Cruz if he were president, would he just simply "overrule the experts"?

Candy, the doctors and experts that are saying this are working for the administration and repeating the administration talking points and their arguments don't make sense. The first argument about the [airport] screen[ing]s doesn't make sense because they don't work during the 21-day incubation period. And the second argument that they make is they say a travel ban would prevent health care relief workers from arriving in West Africa. No one is talking about banning flights into West Africa. Of course physicians and nurses and health care workers should be allowed to go in there and we can send them in on charter flights or military C-130 aircraft with appropriate safety precautions. That's very different from saying commercial airliners should fly day after day after day with hundreds of passengers connecting with thousands of passengers coming all throughout the country. The arguments they're giving don't make sense and what is unfortunate is watching the Obama administration treat this as yet another political issue rather than as a public health crisis.

But Cruz goes one further saying this problem has even larger ramifications if the southern border of the United States remains unsecured:

For the same reason, you've seen virtually no attention from the administration on the need to secure the southern border. Now, that is not withstanding the fact that General John Kelly, the commander of the southern command, just a week ago said if Ebola is transmitted to Central or South America, we will see a mass migration, the like of which we have never seen, and the administration, unfortunately, is not acting to protect our southern borders or to restrict commercial airline flights from places with an active outbreak.

Now the administration has added Ron Klain as Ebola Czar, a position Cruz argues is merely political, especially in light of the president being two weeks late on actually doing anything about Ebola. Here are Cruz's comments on the latest "White House political operative:"

We should be less concerned about giving the public the feeling that the government is on top of this and more concerned about the government actually being on top of it. And this is a manifestation -- we don't need another White House political operative, which is what Mr. Klain has been. What we need is presidential leadership. The person who needs to be on top of this is the president of the United States, standing up and leading it and treating it as a public health emergency.

Two weeks ago, the president should have stood up and suspended flights from these countries. Two weeks ago, the president should have stood up and put additional resources on our borders. Two weeks ago, the president should have demonstrated real leadership to protect American citizens. And for whatever reason, he isn't doing so. And I will tell you, I would welcome his leadership today. We need a commander-in-chief who fulfills his constitutional obligations, not just another White House political operative.

Watch the second half of the interview below: