Rep. Steve Scalise (Getty Images/Mark Wilson)

Whatever impeachment evidence House Intel Committee Chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) produces via his unfair, biased and one-sided impeachment inquiry will be “tainted,” House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (D-La.) said, speaking outside of the hearing room he and fellow Republicans were denied access to on Wednesday.

Rep. Scalise denounced Schiff for refusing to follow precedent and apply “the same rules for Republicans, same rules for Democrats,” allowing both parties to call witnesses during the secretive, closed-door impeachment inquiry:

“Today, only Adam Schiff calls the witnesses. Only Adam Schiff is allowed to issue subpoenas. Adam Schiff doesn’t even allow the president’s legal counsel to be in the room to hear what is going on. And, yet, it deals with impeaching a president of the United States. “He wants to do it on a one-sided term, to create some kind of file of his own to use as the basis of impeachment.”

As a result of the “Soviet-style” tactics by which the selective, one-sided evidence was produced, any impeachment document Schiff, ultimately, releases will be “tainted,” Scalise said: