Passport Guzzle response directs to login page

Hey guys , So i have 2 web apps talking and im trying to get a list of blog post from one to another. I have set up passport and I seem to be getting keys accepted etc but my

echo $response->getBody();

Just gives me the app login page

My Guzzle call looks like this

 $response = $client->post('http://138.68.180.100/oauth/token', [
                'form_params' => [
                    'client_id' => 2,
                    // The secret generated when you ran: php artisan passport:install
                    'client_secret' => 'secret',
                    'grant_type' => 'password',
                    'username' => '[email protected]',
                    'password' => 'secret',
                    'scope' => '*',
                ]
            ]);

            // You'd typically save this payload in the session
            $auth = json_decode((string)$response->getBody());

            $response = $client->get('http://138.68.180.100/news/articles', [
                'headers' > [
                    'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $auth->access_token,
                    'Accept' => 'application/json'
                ]
            ]);
            echo $response->getBody();
            die();

On the other app side I have a route Route::get('news/articles', 'ApiController@hello')->middleware('auth:api');

A controller method

 public function hello() {
        $articles = new Articles();
        $articles = $articles->get();
        return $articles;
    }

and I also updated my .htaccess

 # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
    RewriteRule .* - [e=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]

Any ideas would be greatly appricated