One industry insider said: "Sidelining Acosta would also work to curry favor with Donald Trump, who very much despises the CNN anchor."

Depending on who you ask, CNN anchor Jim Acosta is getting a chance to speak to a much broader audience with an assignment at a new and non-traditional time slot, or he’s being removed entirely from the usual daily discussion around the news.

CNN has told anchor Jim Acosta that they want to move him to from his morning ET slot to midnight ET, a less high profile time period where cable news networks have traditionally run reruns of programming from earlier in the day.