Bill O’Reilly is on the West Coast, and after taping his show in LA yesterday, he dropped by “The Tonight Show.” O’Reilly and Jay Leno talked politics, including what might come up at tonight’s CNN debate: “CNN is definitely going to bear-bait him into this contraception thing, there’s no doubt,” said O’Reilly of Rick Santorum. And on whether Sarah Palin might jump into the race: “The governor is happy where she is, making a fortune on the Fox News Channel and shooting moose, or doing whatever she’s doing,” O’Reilly joked.

Leno and O’Reilly also talked about the coverage of the death of Whitney Houston, O’Reilly’s defense of Ellen DeGeneres and his appearance on “Saturday Night Live” during “What’s Up with That?” Watch: