Chuck grassley back in 2018. senator, it s great to see you. thanks very much for being here this morning. morning, maria. maria: your investigation into hunter biden and his business dealings began when? because i want to get into the antony blinken situation now that we heard from john ratcliffe right. maria: your investigation began, when, 2018? or even earlier than that? really focusing on the bidens probably the ail the end of 2019 and then into 2020 where, obvious, we had the pandemic outbreak so that didn t make things easier. quite honestly, i didn t have the fullport of my committee or the conference to subpoena the bidens. so we invited all of them to come in and testify to proclaim their innocence. what is interesting, maria, antony blinken finally did come in and sit down the for a voluntary, transcribed interview in december of 20 20 to 20 because he wanted to be sec tear