Schwarzenegger talk

"I don't really know. I mean, to be honest with you, I'm only thinking of one thing right now. This is the movie," Schwarzenegger said during a taping of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" at NBC Studios.

Leno introduced his old friend and fellow Republican to the audience as "the next governor from the great state of California."

After the taping, the two left for Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, where they paid a surprise visit on about 1,300 Marines who got to see an early screening of "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."

"You haven't seen special effects like this since the California state budget," Schwarzenegger quipped to the Marines, who gave him a boisterous ovation after Leno warmed up the crowd.

During "The Tonight Show" taping, Leno suggested such campaign slogans for the Austrian-accented actor as "Who better to represent a state where no one speaks English?" and "Not a good enough actor to fool you on taxes."

Schwarzenegger's advisers have said he will decide whether to run after the July 2 release of his movie and only if it becomes clear that an effort under way to recall Gov. Gray Davis will qualify for the ballot.

If voters decide to oust Davis, they would also have to choose a successor.

Schwarzenegger told Leno he is traveling to Iraq over the Fourth of July holiday to screen his movie for U.S. troops there.

"There is no money over there. There's no leadership - pretty much like California," he said.

Also appearing on the show was Snoop Dogg, and Schwarzenegger said the rapper had given him a hip-hop nickname: "The Notorious GOP."

"He could be the next governor," Leno told Snoop Dogg.

"Oooh, I'd love that," the rapper replied.

But he declined to talk about the Tuesday night arrest of several members of his entourage outside the BET Awards ceremony at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.

Authorities have said they are looking into whether some of the rapper's security detail may have been knowingly carrying weapons in the presence of a felon, which is illegal. Snoop Dogg, whose given name is Calvin Broadus, was convicted of possessing cocaine for sale in 1990.

"He could give you a pardon," Leno said of Schwarzenegger.