Politicos, weather watchers, farrakhan

Here’s the rundown on guests and topics for the weekend’s public-affairs programs: Today “Saturday Journal”: Rep. David McIntosh (R-Ind.); Jim Bonham, communication director for Rep. Robert

Matsui (D-Calif.), 5 a.m. C-SPAN. “Today”: Breaking through a diet plateau; Jennifer Jason Leigh, 5 a.m. (4). “Evans & Novak”: Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), 2:30 p.m., repeats Sunday 7

a.m. CNN. “John McLaughlin’s One on One”: Campaign finance, 2:30 p.m. (28). “McLaughlin Group”: Fund-raising; Janet Reno; global warming, 6:30 p.m. (4). “Inside Politics Weekend”: Former

Clinton consultant Dick Morris, Republican consultant Ed Rollins, 3:30 p.m.; repeats midnight, CNN. “Capital Gang”: Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), 4 p.m., 10:30 p.m. CNN. “Larry King Weekend”:

Author Andrew Weil, 6 p.m. and 11 p.m., CNN. Sunday “Sunday Journal”: Ann Lewis, assistant to the president; Lyn Nofziger, former public affairs director with the Reagan administration, 5

a.m. C-SPAN. “Today”: The final cruise of the SS Rotterdam; best buys on cruises; William H. Macy, 6 a.m. (4)(39)(36). “Pacesetters”: Joe Haggerty, president, United Way of Greater Los

Angeles; actress Carmen Zapata, 6 a.m. (5). “Temas y Debates”: President Clinton’s trip to South America, 7 a.m. (KMEX 34). “Meet the Press”: Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, 7 a.m.

(4)(39)(36). “CBS News Sunday Morning”: El Nino and winter weather forecasts; Thelonious Monk’s legacy; training school for team mascots; historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, 7:30 a.m. (2). “Fox

News Sunday”: IRS investigation: Rep. Dick Armey (R-Texas); Vice President Gore’s fund-raising: Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.); Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), 8 a.m. (11). “Face the Nation”: Sen.

Susan Collins (R-Me.), Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.,), Clinton attorney Robert Bennett, 9 a.m. (2). “Late Edition”: Former White House counsel Jack Quinn,

former White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), 9 a.m. CNN. “This Week”: Former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, former Sen. Howard Baker, Sen. John McCain

(R-Ariz.), Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), 10 a.m. (7); 10:30 a.m. (10); 11:30 a.m. (3)(42). “Life & Times”: California Secretary of State Bill Jones, former state Assemblyman Richard Katz, 11

a.m. (28). “Both Sides With Jesse Jackson”: Promise Keepers and racial reconciliation, 2:30 p.m. CNN. “60 Minutes”: Betty Ford, 7 p.m. (2)(8). MORE TO READ