Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin blasted Rep. Adam Schiff, the leader of the House Intelligence Committee, for lying and releasing “cherry-picked leaks” in the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

“Something that I find outrageous is the cherry-picked leaks, the withholding of key facts and the lying about other claims that’s misleading the American public,” Zeldin of New York told host John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on AM 970 New York in an interview Sunday.

Zeldin said Schiff, the California Democrat who has become the public face of the inquiry, is running a “kind of flying by the seat of your pants type process.”

He said Schiff will not release the transcripts of Kurt Volker, the former US envoy to Ukraine, and Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, who both testified behind closed doors to House panels this month.

“Why are we sitting inside of Adam Schiff’s bunker turning in our cell phones before we come in and being told that nothing here can be told to the American public?” Zeldin asked.

He also questioned Schiff’s handling of the whistleblower who came forward with the revelations about Trump’s July 25 phone call in which he pressed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

“The only thing the whistleblower has to add that’s new is information that frankly Adam Schiff and his staff don’t want us talking about,” he said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched the impeachment inquiry after the emergence of the whistleblower’s complaint.