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>> thank you. the u.s. officials say the biden administration has multiple channels open and is sharing intelligence with ukraine at a frenetic pace. natasha bertrand is in brussels this morning. natasha, those open channels are actually becoming increasingly difficult to execute as this invasion wages on. talk to us more about that. >> yeah, erica. as the war gets worse and as communications become severed on the ground, it is becoming increasingly difficult for u.s. officials to transfer that intelligence to ukrainian officials for their use in targeting russian forces. but what we're also...

Looming disaster, and what can be done about it? >> yes, chris, in short, we have missions in 80 crime series, programs in 100 countries, and what we are doing is convening our mission director is out there in the world, where the effects are being felt. if you look at the least developed countries in the world, more than a third of them imports more than a third of their wheat from russia and ukraine. 15 at the least developed countries import more than half of their wheat from the two countries. so, this is in an instant, in a sense, with the invasion that putin orchestrated, taking both of ...

Cooper, pentagon correspondent with "the new york times" and msnbc political analyst. kelly, what's the message this morning on this critical meeting with allies? >> reporter: just a few minutes ago, jose, we saw the president join with g7 leaders after earlier meeting with nato. this is an emergency session, and you get a sense of the high stakes here and the sense of urgency that these leaders feel, to do something new, something more to try to stop and push back vladimir putin one month into this conflict with so much devastation. so part of that is to find new ways to further penalize russ...

Enacting more sanctions and that will go at some of the prominent russian citizens, members of the duma, their legislative branch, defense companies and so forth and also discussions about how to block any work arounds that russia may be able to do with existing sanctions, things involving commodities like gold, trying to block any transfer of gold as an asset that could be converted to the financial strange that putin could use to financial this war. it's looking for ways to build a greater interconnection of the sanctions that have been enacted, not only by the united states but other countr...

Part that would help if russia secures it to link russia with the crimean peninsula. it's keep the sanctions tight, fill the holes in the sanctions where russia is getting work arounds. not a lot of trust yet. optimism out of the talks. that is always the way peace negotiations. there is always a sense of optimism when you can see the lay of the land ahead and see the potential path to peace yet that there are so many pitfalls along the road and that part and that's the reality of how peace talks go. russia is really not committed at the moment. >> yeah. we don't know where they stand on the p...