Campaign Financing, Space Exploration

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

Today

“Saturday Journal”: 5 a.m. C-SPAN.

“Evans & Novak”: Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C., 2:30 p.m., repeats Sunday, 7 a.m. CNN.

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

“Tony Brown’s Journal”: roots of music featuring black hymns, slave songs, 3:30 p.m. (28).

“Inside Politics Weekend”: 3:30 p.m.; repeats midnight CNN.

“Capital Gang Saturday”: Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), 4 and 10:30 p.m. CNN.

“Larry King Weekend”: retrospective on actress Bette Davis, 6 and 11 p.m. CNN.

“The McLaughlin Group”: the media, 6:30 p.m. (4).

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Sunday

“Meet the Press”: Mars probe Pathfinder and space exploration, Daniel Goldin, NASA administrator, Sens. John Glenn (D-Ohio) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), 5 a.m. (4)(36).

“Temas y Debates”: Linda Chavez-Thompson, commissioner on President Clinton’s Presidential Commission on Racial Conflict; Jack Sweeny, Heritage Foundation; June Pyun, Japanese News Agency; Carmen Joge, National Council of La Raza, 7 a.m. (34).

“CBS News Sunday Morning”: the downfall of a Minnesota congresswoman; musician Scott Kirby discusses ragtime music and Scott Joplin; Florida’s Elephant Conservation Center; photographer Tony Gleaton, 7:30 a.m. (2).

“Contrapunto”: Antonia Hernandez, executive director Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund, 8 a.m. (52).

“Late Edition”: Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, 9 a.m. CNN.

“Face the Nation”: Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), 9 a.m. (2).

“This Week”: Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), head of Governmental Affairs Committee investigating illegal campaign contributions, 10 a.m (7); 11:30 a.m. (3)(42).

“Life & Times”: Rudy Fernandez, director of California Office of U.S. Mexico Affairs; John Riojas, vice president of the Teamsters Union; director Barry Sonnenfeld (“Men in Black”), 10:30 a.m. (28).

“Both Sides With Jesse Jackson”: Rep. Charles Canady (R-Fla.); Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Clint Bolick, Institute for Justice, 2:30 p.m. CNN.

“Crossfire Sunday”: Kim Gandy, National Organization for Women; William Mattox, Family Research Council, 4:30 p.m. CNN.

“60 Minutes”: reports on slain Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, industrial hog farming and singer Tina Turner, 7 p.m. (2).