Balanced Budget, White House Sleepovers

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

TODAY

“Saturday Journal”: Christopher Cuomo of the 2030 Center, 5 a.m. C-SPAN.

“Today”: children and computers, 6 a.m. (4).

“Evans & Novak”: Louis Farrakhan’s role in the African American community and his relationship with the Jewish community, 2:30 p.m., repeats Sunday 7 a.m. CNN.

“John McLaughlin’s One on One”: a discussion of cloning with Father Kevin Wildes, a bioethicist at Georgetown University, and Al Spradling, director of the Department of Embryology at Carnegie Institution, 2:30 p.m. (28).

“Capital Gang”: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), 4 p.m., 10:30 p.m. CNN.

“Inside Politics Weekend”: Terry McAuliffe, former Clinton-Gore finance chairman, 4:30 p.m.; repeats 7:30 p.m. CNN.

“Larry King Weekend”: attorney Leslie Abramson, actress Cathy Lee Crosby, Dr. Richard Marrs, author Lisa Friedman Bloch, 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. CNN.

“McLaughlin Group”: White House sleepovers; drug policy; cloning ethics, 6:30 p.m. (4).

SUNDAY:

“Sunday Journal”: 5 a.m. C-SPAN.

“Today”: Academy Awards countdown; Juliette Binoche, 6 a.m. (4).

“News Conference”: State Sen. Tom Hayden (D-Los Angeles), who is running for mayor of Los Angeles, 5:30 a.m. (4).

“Meet the Press”: Rep. Dick Armey (R-Texas), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), 7 a.m. (4).

“CBS News Sunday Morning”: border relations in Laredo, Texas; musical savant Tony DeBlois; dancer Edward Villella, 7:30 a.m. (2)(8).

“Fox News Sunday”: former Clinton strategist Dick Morris; Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.); Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.); Lee Brown, former drug czar for President Clinton; former Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), 8 a.m. (11).

“Late Edition”: Dick Morris, former Clinton advisor, 9 a.m. CNN.

“This Week”: Gen. Barry McCaffrey, director of national drug control policy; Sen. Tad Cochran (R-Miss.), Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), 9:30 a.m. (7); 3 p.m. (3).

“Life & Times”: Michael Genelin of the Los Angeles district attorney’s office and Gilbert Garcia of the California Prison Gang Task Force discuss the Mexican Mafia, 10:30 a.m. (28).

“Both Sides With Jesse Jackson”: John Mack of the Los Angeles Urban League; former prosecutor Victoria Toensing and attorney Mellanie Lomax, 2:30 p.m. CNN.

“Face the Nation”: Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) discusses a balanced budget and campaign finance issues, 4:30 p.m. (2).

“60 Minutes”: surgical assistants; rumors and scams on the Internet, 7 p.m. (2).