be like?" >> bring on the apocalypse. there is an almost fetishistic desire to see everything blow up. it's almost like he is inviting a cleansing fire to just raze the edifice, raze the institutions. i think it's that dramatic. >> narrator: the films didn't have the impact he hoped for. >> narrator: bannon still saw an america in crisis, and in his films, he began to look for a new political warrior to save the country. in 2011, he believed he found her. (people cheering and yelling) >> we're sitting there in 2011, in pella, iowa. and he says, "costa, one day someone like sarah palin, perhaps even in 2012, is going to be president of the united states." >> narrator: the occasion was the premiere of a documentary bannon had made about palin. >> i said, "what are you talking about, steve? how could sarah palin become