Adam Schiff said Sunday that Donald Trump is 'fudging' the intelligence that led to his directive for a drone strike that took out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

The House Intelligence Committee chairman insisted in an interview with CBS News that Trump, in an interview with Fox News on Friday, distorted the intelligence that spiraled a rise in tensions between D.C. and Tehran last week.

'When you hear the president out there on Fox, he is fudging the intelligence and when you hear the Secretary say, well, that wasn't what the intelligence said, but that's my personal belief, he is fudging,' Schiff said in reference to Defense Department Secretary Mark Esper.

'When Secretary Pompeo was on your show last week and made the claim that the intelligence analysis was that taking Soleimani out would improve our security and not – and leaving them in would make us less safe, that is also fudging,' the Democratic representative from California continued in an interview on Face the Nation Sunday morning. 'That's not an intelligence conclusion. That is Pompeo's personal opinion.'

Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that Trump was 'fudging' the intelligence that the president says led him to direct the drone strike that took out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani

'I can reveal that I believe it probably would've been four embassies,' Trump told Fox News Friday in reference to targets Soleimani was planning to attack within days before he was killed

Schiff also claimed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) and Department of Defense Secretary Mark Esper (right) are 'fudging' what they claim the intelligence justifies

Schiff is a member of the Gang of Eight, a bipartisan group of lawmakers who are usually briefed on intelligence matters. He has lamented that they were not notified before Trump directed a drone strike that took out Soleimani earlier this month.

Lawmakers were briefed by Esper, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, CIA Director Gina Haspel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley briefed lawmakers on the attack and intelligence that they say justified taking out Soleimani.

Schiff said Esper was 'just plain wrong' in his assessment that Iran posed a threat to multiple American embassies.

Esper, Pompeo and Trump all affirmed this week that they believed Soleimani was helping plan attacks on four U.S. embassies in the Middle Eastern region before he was killed.

During an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham Friday, Trump said 'I can reveal that I believe it probably would've been four embassies,' in reference to perceivably 'imminent' attacks that he, along with Pompeo and Esper, say could have been carried out within 'days.'

Soleimani was killed earlier this month when Trump ordered a drone strike on an airport in Baghdad, Iraq. He claimed there was intelligence that Soleimani was orchestrating more attacks targeting America and Americans within 'days'

When CBS host Margaret Brennan asked Schiff if the Trump administration was 'lying' about Iran.

'Well, you know, you could certainly put it that way,' he accused. 'But frankly, I think what they are doing is they are overstating and exaggerating what the intelligence shows. And when you're talking about justifying acts that might bring us into warfare with Iran, that's a dangerous thing to do.'

Trump ordered the attack that took out Soleimani after a raid on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq was raided on New Years Eve by protesters who back pro-Iran Shia militia.

Iran retaliated against the U.S. for killing Soleimani by firing almost two dozen missiles at two different bases in Iraq where American troops are stationed. No U.S. troops were killed or injured in the attacks.