Barr the Door: President trump whined over twitter yesterday that Disney president Bob Iger apologized to Valerie Jarrett for Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet, but no one at ABC has ever apologized to him. “Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC. Maybe I just didn’t get the call?”

No, pretty sure no one called, and for good reason. It goes with being president.

Trump didn’t detail the “horrible” statements, but no one owes him an apology.

Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp said on HLN night: “Valerie Jarrett is taking the high road with Roseanne. As for the president? He’s taking the only road he knows: Victim in Chief.”

Meanwhile Barr has been on Twitter defending herself for making what she calls one bad joke, and blaming the sleep aid Ambien. The makers of Abmien tweeted, “Racism is not a known side effect.”

Miss Otis Regrets: Following an appearance by South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy on the CBS This Morning in which he sympathized with President Trump’s frustration over Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions, Trump repeated his regret over appointing Sessions.

Quoting Gowdy, Trump tweeted. “ ‘There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!’ ” Trump added, “And I wish I did!”

Republican leaders have told Trump that if he fires Sessions they will not confirm a replacement.

Gowdy notably also defended the FBI. “When the FBI comes into contact with information about what a foreign government may be doing in our election cycle, I think they have an obligation to run it out,” he said.

The Kiev Illusion: Reporters gathered in Kiev, Ukraine yesterday for a press conference about the murder of their Russian colleague, Arkady Babchenko, a war correspondent and television host who was reported by police to have been shot to death in his apartment.

It was suspected to have been a Russian hit job ordered because of Babchenko’s unflattering news stories.

Then Babchenko walked into the conference alive, healthy, and not a bullet hole in him. It was all an elaborate ruse that appears to have fooled even Babchenko’s wife, who found him “bleeding” to death on the floor.

Investigators said they set up the whole thing to smoke out a Russian security service plot to kill Babchenko.  They had identified a Ukrainian citizen paid $40,000 by Russian security to carry out the killing. That Ukrainian then hired an acquaintance to do the hit.

The Shooting Beat: Two weeks after a student  shot and killed 10 people at a high school outside Houston, Gov. Greg Abbott proposed spending more than $100 million to put more police and armed guards on school campuses and expand efforts to identify students likely to commit mass shootings. “You have to know who is coming into the school, and you have to know who is leaving it,” Abbott said. He did not propose anything about controlling guns.

Nation: Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted by a New York grand jury on charges of rape and committing a criminal sexual act. It was the revelation of Weinstein’s serial sexual predation that led to the #metoo movement. — Banking regulators propose to restrain the so-called Volcker rule that prohibits the kind of risky trading with depositor money that helped create the 2008 financial collapse. Wall Street says the rule is too much a burden on financial institutions.

The Last Days: Archeologists in Pompeii have found the skeleton of a man hit by a large block of stone thrown by the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. They say he appeared to have been fleeing the initial eruption when he was hit with a square block of stone that might have been a door jam. The stone is embedded at an angle with the skeleton’s head beneath it. It’s more evidence of the incredible power of the volcano that destroyed Pompeii.

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