We know why we did it. I know you've articulated your own plans about that transition of the management team, and that was obviously [indiscernible] how do you think about your [Technical Difficulty].We're losing you Julien, I can't hear your question.Sorry. I want to dive into something that is a bit regulatory related and is Ohio related, but it's something you deal with every year. He progressed through various senior level financial positions, including assistant controller FirstEnergy Utilities and assistant controller FirstEnergy Solutions and FirstEnergy Generation. Last question for you super quick. In October 2012, he was promoted to vice president and assistant controller for FirstEnergy Corp, and he was named vice president, controller and chief accounting officer in 2013. I can't tell you the specifics of when each individual functions ceased to be performed by the transition shared services agreement and when FES or Energy Harbor started to do that on their own.I can't answer the question of whether our executives were involved in the running of FES or Energy Harbor at any point after November of 2016. So to the extent that you are running a services arrangement for them in other facets for a longer duration, including seemingly through some for 2020, it's specifically in the context of External Affairs, which would presumably include lobbing that seems to terminated very quickly, if [indiscernible]?Yes, I think you should think about it more in terms of Administrative Affairs that we were providing them, payroll, HR services, some, you know, financial services, IT services, those types of things we were providing. We'll talk to you again when it's appropriate. This is a serious and disturbing situation. Appreciate it.Thank you.

I can tell you this, in every meeting, every phone call, every text message that I participate in, I talked about our obligations to conduct our business transparently, ethically, professionally. We're starting to see residential come down slightly. If they were to downgrade us as a result of this news, as I've said, it's our job to get this news behind us and when that happens, I would expect them to restore the rating that's appropriate.Got it. We continue making our planned investments and deploying capital across our system and we’ve not experienced any significant disruptions in our supply chain or workforce.To protect the health and safety of our employees, their families and our customers we made adjustments to our work procedures early in the pandemic, and we've continued refining those practices over the last several months. In 2008, he was named vice president, Communications and promoted to vice president, External Affairs in 2010. That�s a tough one to get.�.As for maintaining the balance, Jones has a challenge.FirstEnergy�s stakeholders are varied � investors, customers, employees, regulators and critics � and they often have disparate interests.�I think you can please them all a little and move them all forward together. [Operator Instructions] Our first question today is coming from Steve Fleishman of Wolfe Research. And the other COVID costs that we're incurring in the main, they're not that significant. What gives you the confidence that no one was doing anything wrong given the short amount of time between the subpoenas and the statement issued?I would just say that – so first of all, our statement was that we believe that FirstEnergy acted properly in our dealings on House Bill 6. He held a variety of positions across the service territory, and in 1995 was named president of Ohio Edison’s Penn Power subsidiary. And just last question, in terms of – we've seen some rating agencies’ sort of action statements recently, do you see any need to support your credit position in the near-to-medium term given those statements? You know, S&P has a 12% threshold there. Some of the functionality and menus may not be available with this browser. Yesterday, after market closed, we reported earnings of $0.57 per share on both the GAAP and operating earnings basis. I told them that they should not put the ratings integrity of their ratings on the line for FirstEnergy. Our next question is coming from Shar Pourreza of Guggenheim. And then secondly, if I may quickly follow up, you went through a regulatory president to establish the decoupling mechanism. “FirstEnergy acted properly in this matter, and we intend to cooperate fully with the investigation,” Jones said on a call with analysts to discuss the company’s second-quarter results. It keeps us on our toes. As a result, what we told you in April has [borne-out] through this quarter.While weather adjusted load dropped by almost 4% system-wide compared to the second quarter of 2019, the increase in residential revenues related to the stay-at-home orders in our service territory more than offset the decreases in the commercial and industrial sectors. He was listed in.Jon Taylor is senior vice president and chief financial officer for FirstEnergy, with responsibility for accounting, treasury and investor relations.Taylor joined FirstEnergy in 2009.

I’ll walk-through a brief update on some regulatory matters, as well as our operations. You know, as you look at the seat test, you know, we filed that back in May a 10.9% return on equity. We're looking forward to sharing that with the Department of Justice. We’re well below the thresholds.

Hey Charles, and also I saw you quoted in some of the media earlier this week. Please go ahead.Hey, good morning, team. And as you might imagine, I spoke to both S&P and Moody's since Tuesday, we've seen what S&P did.

We were virtually out of the External Affairs business for FES very shortly after November of 2016.

We were not involved in any way in the decisions made by FES.Got it. He held a variety of positions across the service territory, and in 1995 was named president of Ohio Edison’s Penn Power subsidiary. They have adopted new protocols to keep each other safe while continuing to provide the electricity our customers need. Please go ahead.Thank you.