The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee is reportedly struggling to get documents from GOP 5th Congressional District candidate Robert Hyde as they investigate potential surveillance of Kent native Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.  According to emails obtained by NBC News, Hyde accused the congressional committee of trying to set him up. 

Text messages were made public during  impeachment investigation that showed Hyde provided detailed information about Yovanovitch's purported whereabouts in Kyiv to Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani. 

According to the emails, the records Hyde previously produced contain significant gaps, including records the Committee claims were turned over by Parnas.  Hyde previously said it was just a joke, and obtained the information from another supporter of President Trump, a Dutch man named Anthony de Caluwe.  Ukraine's government and the State Department have also been investigating.

According to the emails, Hyde has not followed through on a commitment he made to turn over his devices for the committee to search.  Hyde responded that he would have to be present, "knowing how corrupt our government is, I said that I'm not comfortable giving you my devices.