mistreatment of haitian migrants, the democratic gridlock and the stalled progress against covid. polls bounce up and down, what's striking is how the president of the united states is such a minimal media presence. he's done 10 one on one interviews, takes questions infrequently, is intentionally bland on social media. that sometimes makes him look like a bystander. even biden's boosters in the media are starting to suggest he may not win re-election. a washington post columnist calls a trump victory in 2024 may be the outcome. the media don't like him. the new consensus for now is that joe biden is in trouble. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ howie: i'll have in depth interviews with bret baier and mollie hemingway. from the left to the right with few exceptions, the pundits are no longer denying the president's weakened political standing. >> the democratic party is looking over the edge of the cliff. you're not seeing that strong joe biden leadership that people were expecting to get stuff done. >> his approval now 10 points lower than president obama's at the same point in his presidency. >> there is no doubt, no doubt, that the biden white house is aware that the president's poll numbers are dropping with each passing week, that the legislation is stalled. >> it's only 10 months into joe biden's presidency but we may be already witnessing the death of the biden agenda. boy, that was quick. howie: joining us now to analyze the coverage in new york, will cain, co-host of "fox & friends weekend," and in los angeles, leslie marshall, radio talk show host and fox news contributor. will, why do you think there is suddenly this negative, alarming coverage of president biden. was there a trigger point or is it just the all mighty polls. >> the poll drives a lot of media narrative. in the clip, and yourself, howie, you laid out the issues that are going poorly. i think on top of that there is a sense of impending doom, and that's a small perhaps slight exaggeration. everyone can see inflation is on horizon, everyone can feel the impact of the supply chain crisis. the lockdowns, the policies and response to covid and in the biden administration's economic response to all that it will have a price tag and we see that price tag coming very, very soon. i think all of that added up to an undeniableity. howie: leslie, have even sympathetic liberal outlets been forced to recognize that joe biden is struggling, especially with the progressive versus moderate paralysis on the hill that means that biden hasn't had a win in quite a while? >> i don't agree with that. i mean, there has been a pull between me, the central mod et e democratic and pro egress i've faction and that's been there since before joe biden was elected president and it continues. the reason media is emphasizing that, if it bleeds it leads. cnn, fox, all had the president at 50%. look at what they're saying in the polls. the american people are confused. they say they want less government. every big government ticket item and package they overwhelmingly approve of. you can't have it both ways. supply chain, bloomberg did a great piece a couple days ago, they have an analysis that shows that the supply chain has peaked. in loss angeles, the la port, we're seeing 24/7 and we're seeing containers and we're seeing trucks to distribute the goods. good news about this, more people are buying more stuff which stimulates the economy. >> i wonder if i might ask an open and honest, curious question of leslie, set aside the polls. if we look at immigration, crime, afghanistan, the economy, can you name an issue where it seems to be genuinely going well for the biden administration? even covid. what would be the victory in what's going well? >> well, it will go well. we have peaked the with the supply chain. covid, no president, whether donald trump, joe biden, anybody else in the few churr, can get around a pandemic that's completely a new virus. of for crying out loud, we have people out there attacking doctors and scientists about this. howie: i think will's point is, what's going well now and obviously the polls are a snapshot in time. i have to push back on the paralysis on the hill. however it turns out, you have a bipartisan infrastructure bill which is a great achievement being held hostage for a bigger bill and senators are blocking it. it doesn't look like the democrats control capitol hill, narrowly doesn't look biden is in control. speaking of the legislation, let me play what i think will live on a classic sound bite when reporters questioned nancy pelosi. >> do you think you need to do a better job at messaging and going forward how do you sell this -- >> i think you could do a better job of selling it. howie: what does that say about the mindset of the house speaker and house democrats that they believe the media should help sell the $3.5 trillion one party only massive spending bill? >> it means that the speaker of the house has a sense of expectation of well-earned expectation, she expects favorable treatment from the press because in the past she's gotten favorable treatment from the press so she turns around and says why aren't you doing a better job of selling this for us. it's a he relationship. it's a mutually beneficial relationship, one could call it an abusive relationship. here's the democratic party turning on its spouse here, its significant other here in the media and going hey, why aren't you taking up for me. you have in the past. do your job. sell my work. howie: leslie, it may be fair criticism to say the press hasn't done a great job of explaining what's in the massive bill ranging from climate change to child tax credits, on and on. i would argue it's the job of the politicians. are the stories framed that it's so important and vital for the country, for biden and the dems in both chambers to pass this? >> no, i would agree with the speaker to a degree. i don't think it's the press' responsibility. it is the party, whether they're in power or not, their responsibility to put forth to the american people and to sell the legislation they're trying to pass. the media does have a responsibility, what you said. why do people not know what's in it? because all they hear about is the price tag, the in-fighting and those are the headlines. a lot of americans don't read past the headlines. they don't talk about what's in it. they support it and they don't know what's in it. we see our politicians often he vote for and against things that they haven't read or know what's in as well. i think she was giving a snarky response to a question s she didn't like and i think she was honest to that point which is you they're not telling the american people what's in it. howie: in terms of not liking the question, the question was, could you do a better job of marketing it and we have these two bills and the fact is that there's a lot of stuff in here to process. the white house talks all the time about process and 3.5 trillion and buy. and biden -- excuseme, joe mancn sinema. let me make a broader point, which is the media are covering what i would call a democratic freak-out in some corners about joe biden, his administration, the administration's future and the real nightmare is that this could lead to a second trump term. >> for the media. the real nightmare, for the media. howie: had right. >> let's be clear. a real nightmare for the people, not so much for the american people, some significant percentage of the american people. i think they realize that is a likely future to the point of your intro, the future would include a likely trump win. the wake-up call for the american public on these policies, the wake-up call for this moment where joe biden's numbers are under water is this. that america voted for or against donald trump. that's what america did. they checked a box and that box was for donald trump or against donald trump. virtually no one watching the program and no one in america voted for joe biden. what they got was goa. howie: i certainly would you agree that biden ran as the nontrump. leslie, all of thighs columns i'm -- these columns i'm seeing in the liberal magazines like the atlantic saying donald trump could win in 2024 fair and scare without state legislatures manipulating the vote i think is a sign that in the opinion and the way the coverage is going that they think biden is in some trouble. >> well, they're going to have any time a poll dips, they're going to say who is the next guy. so at this moment in time, the snapshot in time, let's talk 30 days from now and see what they're writing. i bodies agree. i think -- i would disagree. you want to look at polling and voters. the pro-trump candidates out there have not been winning or leading with huge margins. just look at the gubernatorial race in virginia, it is neck and neck and that's a trump backed candidate on the right. in addition to that, the republicans that i know and i have a lot of republican friends that voted for trump and they don't want to do it again. many view him as -- howie: i don't want to he debate that. i want to talk about the coverage which is i think you would agree, you can talk about 30 days from now or six months from now and you're right, the president could come back. right now, the stories are almost all negative, just briefly. >> well, i think to will's point i would disagree. i think the press wants donald trump to be in the race and i think the press wants donald trump to win. it was sexy and gave great ratings and made money. i would disagree with will on that. maybe they're trying to push a foreshadowing narrative in the voters's means. voters minds. howie: i think the press wants donald trump in the news because he's good for rating. when we come back, joe rogan takes on cnn's sanjay gupta over covid organizations and kyrie irving is benched for being unvaxed and bret baier in the on-deck circle. a lot of 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doctor. when sanjay gupta came on the show, rogan unloaded. >> there was lying at your network about people taking human drugs versus -- >> calling it a horse dewormer is not a flattering thing. >> it's a lie on a news network. does it bother you that the news network you work for out and out lied, outright lied about me taking horse dewormer? >> they shouldn't have said that. why did they do that? i don't know. howie: will cain, it was don lemon and others at cnn who kind of mocked rogan for taking ivermectin. it wasn't sanjay gupta who said any of these things. he took the heat there. he had a hard time defending his network. >> he went back to don lemon and gave credibility to the lie once again. this is media criticism and it deserves the highest of criticism because it was an outright propaganda lie. it cost lives. this costs people lives. ivermectin is a nobel prize winning drug used successfully on billions of people across the globe as a parasitic. they turned it into a horse dewormer and nothing else. it only could be a horse dewormer. today you can't get doctors to give you ivermectin. they're afraid to prescribe it. pharmacies wonderful a prescription for ivermectin. people are dying because cnn and msnbc and guys like sanjay gupta gave credibility to a lie and there needs to be a high cost for that, the highest, the easiest are turning our ears and eyes away from pure propaganda and lies. howie: had i think dr. gupta deserves credit for getting into the ring and getting beat up. it's fair to point out that the fda and other of medical experts say ivermectin doesn't have effectiveness against covid-19. rogan has 200 million monthly podcast listeners on spotify, he has a platform that enables him to fight back against cnn. >> he can be responsible or irresponsible. i'm good friends with the head of infectious disease at johns hopkins and he would say is not the ivermectin. it's the antibodies that can help them and also if they took nothing, if the immune system was strong enough, they wouldn't have had a problem. i'm a broadcaster. i have a responsibility. if i get sick, i'm not going to joe rogan and nobody should go to me or any podcaster for medical care. joe rogan wants ratings and wants to have his name out there. it's not fair to attack dr. sanjay gupta, he's not responsible for what others say on the et-on the network. >> listen, there is such thing as data and evidence out there and that has more value than the opinion or the statement of authorities, be them dr. fauci or the cdc. i want to see what you're basing your opinion on. joe rogan is a more honest and ininterrogatory gray -- integrity filled person than anyone out there. we have to acknowledge there is a truth and they're doing anything but offering it. >> when you get sick, will, go to joe rogan. howie: i have to move on. >> i'll take his advice over gupta's ten times over ten. howie: you don't mock a guy who got covid. the reason cnn did this, they don't like his politics. also, kyrie irving has been benched from all games because he refuses to get vaccinated. he broke his silence the other day. take a look. >> you know, if you felt uncomfortable going into the season when you were promised that you had exemptions or that you didn't have to be forced to get the vaccine, you think i really want to lose money? .you think i really want to give up on my dream to go after a claim i don't know ship? howie: crily irving will -- kyrie irving will lose $15 million if he doesn't change his mind. joe reed calls him a tool of the alt right. is this criticism because he's black and they discourage other blacks from getting the vaccine? >> i don't know how much had his race has the to do with it, howie. it has to do with the cult of the vaccine, that there's one path in life for everyone, regardless of health circumstanceses and age and religious status, there is no exemption in the cult of popular opinion on whether or not you should be vaccinated. this man ran his analysis s on his own health and his risk risk/reward analysis and he decided it's not for him. he's ready to make the sacrifice, more than anyone else you've seen out there, he's ready to make a massive sacrifice for what he believes his right. howie: media conservatives seem to like kyrie irving, leslie. >> he has every right not to get the vaccine. organizations such as the nba or the venues they're playing at have the right to have rules, if you want to play the game, you have to follow lows the rules. if you don't want to follow the rules, the consequences are to be benched or you don't get the flight. that's where we're at with this. we've seen it in the past with other types of things that we have to have vaccines for, whether it's schools or jobs. howie: athletes get a lot of attention for the vaccination decisions because of the high profile. thank you for coming by. up next, mollie hemingway on her fascinating sometimes us from frustrating new interviews with donald 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down, he's profane and full of himself and goes off the record to praise people who he might beat up on publicly. would you say he's entertaining but frustrating to interview. >> that's a great way to put it. he's full of information. some of the most interesting things he says are off the record. he has good gossip. howie: i hate when that happens. >> he has great gossip. that's good for the book. i was interested in the substance, the details about his presidency, about how he chose different people, about what the 2020 campaign was like and his arguments about the election and problems with the election. howie: you write donald trump's unique personality contributed to his notable successes and failures. he's harmly blameless for the narrow defeat. what about the fact that he doesn't accept the narrow defeat despite the investigations and lawsuits, insists that the election was to use your book tie tell, rigged. >> he'll go beyond that. i was frustrated by the conversation after the election where you almost weren't allowed to talk about what happened during the election. it was unlike any election we ever had. there were hundreds of changes to laws and procedures, some legal, some not legal. i was interested in how the media and big tech corrupted our elections by inventing stories, censoring people. by looking into it, i found out so much more, like about how mark zuckerberg, one of the world's wealthiest men funded the private take over of governmental election offices. i wanted to find out what happened because i didn't trust other people to tell the story accurately. howie: it's called reporting. in the last few days, donald trump said in a statement to reporters, one, unless we solve the election fraud of 2020, republicans will not be voting in 22 and 24. it's the single most important thing republicans can do and just on friday i believe another statement says there should be a new election in arizona or he should be declared the winner. should he move on from all this and does the press really want him to move on? >> the press definitely doesn't want him to move on. nobody wants to talk about the actual changes to election laws and whether we can have a republic if we allow those changes to remain in perpetuity. a lot of changes that happened people said they had to happen because of covid but they weakened the security, whether flooding the zone with tens of millions of mail-in ballots without having appropriate security measures. you need to have consent of the winners and the losers. election integrity is very important. the media is not interested in talking about that, democrats are not interested in talking about that in part because i think they enjoy the system the way it is and think it can be used to secure further vic trims in 2022 and 2024 and beyond. what's important is that we actually know what happened and how to have elections that everybody can trust. howie: when you say the press doesn't want donald trump to move on from his claims that the election was stolen from him, what they do 24/7 is denounce him for undermining democracy. >> they don't talk about the actual issueses in play. that's what i find so frustrating. they use these ways of talk about was it stolen, was it not stole heen, without talking about what we witnessed. we know the election was unlike anything else, we know the media lost their ever-living minds, and made up stories, whether it was the false and damaging conspiracy theory about russia, we know big tech meddled in a way they never did did before and we know the laws were changed so they would rather talk about in flippant and unimportant ways rather than looking at what happened in the states and making sure that we clean things up going forward. howie: i have nor questions for you. stick around. we'll get a break. next on media buzz, bret baier on the coverage of joe biden, donald trump and the mead can yew chatter about -- media chatter about civil war. when you hear, 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seems wildly hyped if we're talking about real war, not re-tore y'all car. >> -- rhetorical war. >> i think it fits the narrative. we're a long way away from that. we have definite partisan rifts and the country is divided but it's been a much different place before. so i think it's a part to stir the pot but we as a nation and covering it could do better to take the temperature down. howie: i think that's great advice. look, i go online, i watch the other cable news channels, in some precincts it seems as if donald trump is still president. he's the undisputed leader of the republican party but he generates a lot of news in ways that sometimes overshadows president biden. why is that? >> well, he just gets a lot of clicks. he gets a lot of -- i do think that some of the networks and some of the news organizationings feel like when they talk about donald trump their eyeballs go up, the people watching them loyally go up and howie: and they miss him, they miss beating up on him. >> president trump would say, you're going to miss me and they are. you look at ratings, you look at people tuning in, they do. i do think that biden is completely different when it comes to dealing with the media. think about how many times donald trump answered questions, how many times on the way to the helicopter he just took all kinds of questions. howie: several times a day sometimes. >> not only that, but we knew every second what he was thinking based on his twitter feed. that's not what we know about president biden and it's different. howie: president biden has done zero interviews with fox news, he's often seen walking away without questions. is he forfeiting one of the main tools of the presidency which is communicating through the media? >> yes. i do think they're mercking a strategic calculation that he's not good at that. and that he -- when he has done them, it has generated its own news based on something he said or not saying. and so they would rather i think from a strategic press point of view have him give a speech and have jen psaki field the questions and do the q & a banter. howie: i would argue that if he makes occasional mistakes and all presidents make a mistake when dealing with the press, that he would have more influence on the news schedule. most days joe biden doesn't fill the news void. if you don't fill it, you cede it to your opponents and the media. >> i agree. the strategy has been an afternoon speech where he walking away and reporters are yelling at him as he walks away and to have the press secretary answer the questions. he answers some questions. he's done a few news conferences. but they're few and far between and his number of interviews, if you just statistically look at where other presidents have been, he is way, way down. howie: i think the low media profile works fine when things are going well. things are not going well now according to the polls and the various crises. the press is sometimes puff on president biden when it came to the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan and the border crisis. a lot of times it seems they challenge him less. >> i agree. i think over time they're realizing that the story is developing and that there's much more of a backbone in the white house press briefing room, but the honeymoon was long for a candidate we didn't hear much about, from, on the campaign trail either. so i do think that it is turning and you see that in the types of questions and the types of follow-ups, but in a respectful, pointed way, peter doocy, jacqui heinrich, i think have been leading the way in asking those questions. howie: in all of the interactions with the former president he was often beating up on journalists and news organizations and they were often beating up on him, that was part of the drama. >> i do think it's important to say that donald trump at some points it seemed like broke the media. like some people who were normal, regular, middle of the road journalists got emotional and they acted differently with donald trump than they did any other time. howie: right, casting aside sometimes even the pretense of trying at least to be fair. i think that's an important point. you watched the january 6th riot unfold from your home studio and you were then finishing this book on you'd ulysesgrant, in part in the hoty contested election. how strong are the parallels. >> they're strong because here was an election in doubt. i happened to be finishing this book. so that parallel alone. but what it enabled me to do and i start the book like that, to rescue the republic from the anchor chair of looking at that day and it gives you perspective because as we talked about when we started, all the talk about going to a civil war at that time, 1876. 1876, we were gettingready to tl war. it's because of grant and negotiations behind the scenes and the grand bargain that he prevents us from getting there. the similarities are -- howie: he did this how? >> he had relationships behind the scenes with congress, he sets up a commission and with the hayes and tillden people comes to the conclusion that with rutherford b hayes getting the election and inauguration, federal troops come out of the south, the south agrees to be part of the union. you can argue what happens in reconstruction, after reconstruction, after that, and many people say it leads to years and years of civil rights strife. howie: so grant pulls off a grand bargain as he is leaving office, are there any grand bargains possible today when congress can't even agree on the simple act of raising the debt ceiling to pay bills we ran up. >> that's a great he question - that is a great question. this is a split in congress, a very narrow majority for democrats. joe biden ran as a conciliatory candidate, bipartisan candidate who was going to reach across the aisle. that has not happened. they've got an infrastructure bill that's bipartisan that is sitting on the house but is not being he voted on 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that not only did donald trump try to overturn the last election even after january 6th but that the former president and his allies are determined to do the same thing in 2024. >> make no mistake what donald trump and his supporters are trying to do is piece together a slow-moving coup. howie: and we're back with mollie hemingway, author of the new book, rigged. what do you make of this increasingly loud media refrain that donald trump and gop have already done it, they already all but rigged the 2024 election. >> i think it's important to go back to the 2016 election and remember that msnbc and other prominent media outlets put forth the lie that donald trump colluded with russia to steal the 2016 election. that's why nobody believes them anymore. they know they're willing to lie about really important things like that. they don't believe them about whether the 2020 election was the best, most free and fair election in the history of the world and they also don't believe what the meaning of talking about election integrity it for the years to come. most americans do want elections where people can vote freely but not cheat freely. they want to have systems in place where they can trust the results of an election. howie: that's what the debate is in about in the stage where the republican controlled states are changing the rules where state legislatures could overturn -- >> think about where the talk is going. some certain laws are changed to have voter id or basic protections about what happens with mail-in ballots or whether you mail out tens of millions of ballots to addresses whether or not people are living there, the mildest of changes and the media claims for all year that this was a return to jim crow. that is not a responsible way to talk about this issue and that's why people don't trust anything they have to say about things going forward. howie: let me ask you, in your book you adopt the trumpian term fake news which is part of the culture. you write by 2020 the media were practically campaigning for joe biden, level of collusion not seen even during the obama era. the word collusion goes a bit far for me but the practically supporting part, right on target. you say it was an outgrowth of four years of trump coverage. >> i've seen never seen anything like this. we've known bias exists for a long time. between 2016 and 2020, something else changed entirely. it was not just bias but propaganda, invention of fake news based on nothing but anonymous sources, things that were refuted by dozens of people such as the lie that donald trump claimed he didn't go to the cemetery for weather, which is what happened, but because he hated dead american soldiers. it was a lie that got spread into presidential debates. at the same time the media were doing something that was the most horrific thing of the campaign, suppressing a story that would have hurt their favorite candidate, joe biden. there was legitimate news about the biden family business that the media went out of the way to lie about when it was important that the american people know whether or not the person they were thinking about electing had a family business that was open to corruption by funding from foreign oligarchs and the media suppressed the story and lied about it. you can't have free and fair elections when you're in this kind of environment with our media. howie: trump told you, he said this public as well, that he believes that stories with anonymous sources, you mentioned sources, don't have a real source, 80% of the time. after many years in newsrooms i can tell you that's not true. the sources could be wrong. the sources could have an axe to grind, the sources may be unfair, may be lower level people presented as high level people. except in the most extreme caseses, they're not fiction. but trump continues to say this. >> the problem with anonymous sources is' no way to challenge what you're saying. i interviewed a lot of people who were anonymous for this book as well. sometimes they would tell me something. i would think this is very explosive. when i bodying into it i would find out that there was perspective, it was completely wrong, not bolstered by any other facts and so i didn't use it. and i would he see some of those same things appear other people's books because they hadn't checked it out. that's the problem with over-reliance on anonymous sources with a failure to verify what they're claiming. anyone can claim anything at any time. doesn't make it true. howie: i agree that the best sources are ones that have documents or something to back up or other people that can corroborate. you've gotten as we talked about this, most journalists don't have, whichs is access to donald trump. you've been to mar-a-lago three times, the chance to sit down with him. has that influenced your thinking and perhaps made you more similar threatsic to him. >> -- sympathetic to him. >> one of the challenges with president trump was not being hostile to him. that was a standard many could not meet. it was helpful to get his her spec testify. the book was about everything that happened during the campaign. i was interviewed high level campaign source, people at the rnc and state and local level. nothing goes in unless it's substantiated. that's what was important. howie: in general, in terms of writing and reporting and thinking about trump related issues it's nice to be able to talk to a president or former president but is there also a danger there? >> i think any time you have high level access, and i've had that because i interviewed supreme court justices, senate majority leaders, speakers of the house, you have to balance that with actually not -- just reporting what actually happened. howie: right. and that exactly is the key, i think. everybody wants access and really helps to know what subpoena somebody's real -- somebody's really thinking. you've got to make journalistic judgments. mollie hemingway, 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no. howie: according to couric, she spiked the late justice saying the athletes were showing contempt for a government that made it possible for her parents and grandparents to live a decent life. she clearly let her own political views override her journalistic responsibility for a fair interview. john guden lost his job as the raiders cost courtesy of the new york times which obtained e-mails from him that ranked of homo phobia and racism. he also spent time as an espn analyst and apologized when he resigned. he was e-mails with the president of the washington football team and others and no one blew the whistle. rolling stones stopped paying "brown sugar" with them trying to figure out what the beef is. it features such offensive lyrics as a slaver that you could hear just around midnight. i was stunned to hear that superman is coming out as bi. what about lois lane. they are featuring clark kent's son with lois as the one with the relationship. this feels like an attention getting stunt and it worked. and we made it. by the way, no more truth justice and the american way. the american way part is now cut out from the superman comics. that's it for this edition of media buzz. i'm howard kurtz. we hope you'll like our facebook page. continue the conversation on twitter. check out my podcast, media buzz meter. we diehl with the buzzy -- deal with the buzziest stories of the day. my favorite thing to do on television is to have actual conversationses with people as we did with bret baier and a mollie hemingway. not just q & a and talking points but hear each other, listen. it's the part i enjoy the most. hope you do too. we'll see you here next week with the latest buzz. aspirin could be hurting your stomach. new vazalore is the first liquid-filled aspirin capsule clinically shown to cause fewer ulcers than plain aspirin. vazalore is designed to help protect... releasing aspirin after it leaves your stomach... where it is absorbed to give you the benefits of life saving aspirin... to help prevent another heart attack or stroke. heart protection with your stomach in mind. try new liquid-filled vazalore. aspirin made amazing! a lot of people think dealing with copd is a walk in the park. if i have something to help me breathe better, everything will be fun and nice. but i still have bad days... flare-ups, (cough cough) which can permanently damage my lungs. my lungs need protection against flare-ups. so it's time to get real. because in the real world... our lungs deserve the real protection of breztri. breztri gives you better breathing... symptom improvement, and flare-up protection. it's the first and only copd medicine proven to reduce flare-ups by 52%. breztri won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. it is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition... or high blood pressure before taking it. don't take breztri more than prescribed. breztri may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling... problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. for real protection, ask your doctor about breztri. up to one million dollars. that's how much university of phoenix is committing to create 400 scholarships this month alone. if you're committed to earning your degree, we're committed to making it accessible. because we believe everybody deserves a chance. and sometimes one chance is all it takes to change everything. see what scholarship opportunities you may qualify for at phoenix.edu it wasn't long after i had joined golo before i had to start buying new pants. you may qualify for golo changes your whole lifestyle and it changes the way that you think. you don't have to deprive yourself of anything. 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