[Blitzer:] President Obama now back at the White House after a three- day swing through North Carolina and Virginia to push his jobs plan. Earlier the president and first lady spoke at a military base in Virginia where they announced that private companies have pledged to hire 25,000 U.S. veterans and their spouses by the end of 2013. The president then traveled to the Richmond, Virginia area, where he urged Congress to act.
[Barack Obama,  President Of The United States:] These are the choices that Congress will be presented within the next few weeks, and if they vote against these proposals, if they say no to the steps we know will put people back to work right now, they're not going to have to answer to me. They're going to have to answer to you.
[Blitzer:] Vice President Biden is pushing for quick passage of the provision including a provision at the same time, including a provision that would keep teachers, firefighters, and police officers on the job. Our Congressional correspondent Kate Bolduan is picking up this part of the story for us. All right, Kate. What are you hearing? Explain to our viewers.
[Kate Bolduan, Cnn Correspondent:] Vice President Biden, he came to Capitol Hill today to try to pile on the pressure to get Congress to pass part of the president's jobs bill. The bill is still not likely to go anywhere in the Senate, but it did lead to a fiery, unscripted moment with the vice president.
[Joe Biden,  U.s. Vice President:] Real people will get real relief right now.
[Bolduan:] To a room packed with the teachers, firefighters, and police he promises to help, Vice President Joe Biden took the president's message from the bus tour straight to a rally on Capitol Hill.
[Biden:] They won't let this vote on it. Well, I want, my colleagues want, to vote on it piece by piece. Explain to the American people, explain why. This is an emergency 300,000 teachers have been laid off.
[Bolduan:] Biden went on to say police layoffs in places like Flint, Michigan, have led to increased crime.
[Biden:] In many cities, the result has been it's not unique, murder rates are up. Robberies are up. Rapes are up.
[Bolduan:] Afterward as the vice president was leaving, he was confronted by the reporter from the conservative news site, "Human Events."
[Unidentified Male:] You're using a rape reference to describe opposition
[Biden:] No, no, what I said, let's get it straight, guys. Don't screw around with me. Let's get it straight.
[Unidentified Male:] You didn't use a rape reference?
[Biden:] I said rape was up three times in flint. There are the numbers. Go look at the numbers. Murder is up, rape is up, and burglary is up. That's exactly what I said.
[Unidentified Male:] And if Republicans don't pass this bill, rape will continue to rise?
[Biden:] Murder will continue to rise. Rape will continue to rise. All crimes will continue to rise.
[Unidentified Male:] Do you think it's appropriate for the vice president to use language
[Unidentified Female:] We've got to go. I'm sorry, we've got to go.
[Bolduan:] Despite the heated rhetoric and the full court pass to pass a $35 billion measure to help keep teachers and first responders on the job, the reality in Congress is this bill has virtually no chance at passing, and Democrats know that, prompting the top Republican in the Senate to blast the White House and Senate Democratic effort as nothing more than a political sideshow.
[Mitch Mcconnell,  Senate Minority Leader:] Let park the campaign bus, put away the talking points, and do something to address the jobs crisis. The American people want action. The election is 13 months away.
[Bolduan:] Still, we do expect the Senate to hold a procedural test vote on this part of the president's jobs bill by the end of the week. Again, it is not likely to pass as Republicans remain steadfastly against the tax increase Democrats have proposed to pay for the bill. Senate Democratic leaders, Wolf, do promise they will continue to bring up other parts of the president's jobs bill in the coming weeks.
[Blitzer:] I've covered vice president Biden for many, many years. I rarely have seen him as angry as I did in that clip right there, Kate.
[Bolduan:] Very fired up.
[Blitzer:] Thanks very much, Kate Bolduan, reporting from Capitol Hill. Out on the international front, the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, is making a surprise visit to Afghanistan today. She touched down in Kabul. She'll be meeting with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai tomorrow. Secretary Clinton is on a swing through the Middle East and North Africa, made an unannounced visit to Libya today. Jill Dougherty is traveling with the secretary. Breaking down the Republican presidential debate, I'll ask a voice from the left, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, whom he now fears the most. And shocking new details are emerging after the discovery of four disabled people being kept in a virtual basement dungeon. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM.