The president's cancellation of a fundraiser to instead attend a Cabinet meeting on the Ebola crisis shows the White House is finally taking the deadly virus seriously, says Jeffrey Lord, a former aide to Ronald Reagan and contributing editor at The American Spectator.
"[This] should tell you something, tell us all something here that they're beginning to get the drift of the kind of problem they have, which is systemic," Lord said Wednesday on the "Steve Malzberg Show" on
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"This is what liberalism is, it's not competent and this is the kind of problem that we get into here, in this case … a very, very serious disease, a deadly disease.
"We've got a lot of problems with this and there are a lot of problems coming and frankly they're just not up to snuff."
On Wednesday, it was revealed that a second nurse at the Dallas hospital where an Ebola patient died has been diagnosed with the virus.
Lord feels the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is unprepared.
"I honestly do not think they know what they're doing and that is a really scary thought considering what's at stake here," he said.
"These cases are now popping up in the United States, you've got thousands and thousands of cases over there in West Africa."
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