TRENTON — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) is calling on Gov. Chris Christie to show us the "science, not politics," when it comes to combatting Ebola.

Warren, speaking on a morning news show the same day Christie took to NBC’s Today Show to defend his controversial quarantine protocol, accused New Jersey’s governor of playing politics.

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“He should bring out his scientists who are advising him on that because we know that we want to be led by science,” Warren said on "CBS’ This Morning."

“That’s what’s going to keep people safe,” she said, “Science, not politics.”

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, left, answers questions from the media about nurse Kaci Hickox's quarantine on Monday.

Warren was on air discussing her book, “A Fighting Chance,” and the midterm elections. The federal lawmaker accused Christie’s Republican party of allowing the Ebola virus problem to grow because of funding cuts to critical research.

“This is why elections matter and why they matter over time. Ebola is not new, we’ve known about it for a long time and we were putting money into funding Ebola many years ago and Republicans have cut funding overall for medical research, for the National Institute of Health, and Ebola has not been a priority,” Warren said.

“So now we’re in a position where instead of making those investments up front,” she said. “We wait until people die, now we’re going to spend billions of dollars and some real risk to our country.”

The critique comes around the same time Christie told NBC's Matt Lauer the CDC is playing catch-up and that he has no intention of reversing course on his quarantine policy.

“I’m going to be on the right side,” Christie said.

“We’re not going to have folks being infected in New Jersey and other states in this country,” he said. “All we’re talking about is folks who have been directly in contact as health care workers with folks who have been actively infected with the virus.”

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