Jerusalem Bombing, Campaign Reform

Here’s the rundown on guests and topics for the weekend’s public-affairs programs:

Today

“Saturday Journal”: Betsy Palmer, Congressional Record; Mindy Tucker, communications director for Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas); David Sandretti, press secretary for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), 5 a.m. C-SPAN.

“Today”: preparing a child for kindergarten, 6 a.m. (4)(36).

“Evans & Novak”: Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), 2:30 p.m., repeats Sunday, 7 a.m. CNN.

“John McLaughlin’s One on One”: pain, 2:30 p.m. (28).

“Inside Politics Weekend”: William Weld’s nomination as ambassador to Mexico, 3:30 p.m.; repeats midnight, CNN.

“Tony Brown’s Journal”: a super cyber leader, technical workers, 3:30 p.m. (28).

“Capital Gang Saturday”: Rep. Jennifer Dunne (R-Wash.), 4 and 10:30 p.m. CNN.

“McLaughlin Group”: the budget, the Jerusalem bombing and campaign finance reform, 6:30 p.m. (4).

Sunday

“Meet the Press”: Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.); Jack Kemp, Empower America; Reps. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.), Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.) and John Kasich (R-Ohio), and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) 7 a.m. (4)(36).

“CBS News Sunday Morning”: militant activist Phillip Berrigan; trout cataloger James Prosek; musicians the McDermott Sisters; postcard from New Orleans; reconstructed Globe Theatre in London; author Sally Putnam Chapman, 7:30 a.m. (2).

“Fox News Sunday”: Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), 8 a.m. (11).

“Contrapunto”: Bernard Parks, Los Angeles Police Department, 8 a.m. (52).

“Face the Nation”: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Sandy Berger, national security advisor; Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine); Bay Buchanan, Republican activist, 9 a.m. (2).

“Late Edition”: Rep. Dick Armey (R-Texas); Dori Gold, Israeli U.N. ambassador, 9 a.m. CNN.

“Bob Navarro’s Journal”: defense attorney Charles Linder and author Ken Chane, 9:30 a.m. (2).

“This Week”: William Weld’s nomination as ambassador to Mexico; former Georgia senator Sam Nunn; Steve Forbes, publisher of Forbes magazine, 10 a.m. (7); 11:30 a.m. (3)(42).

“Both Sides With Jesse Jackson”: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, 2:30 p.m. CNN.

--LEE HARRIS