The FBI paid a visit to Republican congressional candidate Robert Hyde's Connecticut home and business on Thursday, days after the House Intelligence Committee released texts Hyde sent an associate of President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani suggesting he was surveilling then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

A senior law enforcement official told NBC News that the FBI was searching Hyde's home and business. Hyde said earlier this week that he had been drinking when he sent the texts to Giuliani's now-indicted associate Lev Parnas.