Anti-Trump anchor Jim Acosta left off new CNN programing schedule

Anti-Trump anchor Jim Acosta was near disconnected CNN’s caller weekday programming lineup erstwhile it was announced connected Thursday.

Acosta’s 10 a.m. ET programme was replaced with "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown," successful the network’s latest reshuffling. CNN has moved astir its hosts and anchors respective times implicit the past fewer years, but the latest shakeup seems to permission Acosta successful limbo. 

"We are successful progressive discussions with Jim astir a caller clip slot and volition person much accusation to stock soon," a CNN spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

Other shifts see Jake Tapper being moved to a two-hour slot from 5 to 7 p.m. ET, portion CNN's primetime lineup of Anderson Cooper, Kaitlan Collins and Abby Phillip is unchanged from 8-11 p.m. ET.

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It was archetypal reported successful the Status newsletter past week that Acosta was pitched by CNN CEO Mark Thompson to determination him from his one-hour slot astatine 10 a.m. ET to a two-hour slot opening astatine midnight, a acold little distinguished spot successful the lineup.

Acosta became much wide known arsenic CNN's main White House analogous for his antagonistic narration with President Donald Trump and his spokespersons during Trump's archetypal term. After the 2020 election, Acosta's presumption astatine CNN was shifted to main home correspondent, anchoring a amusement connected the weekends but yet moving his mode to weekday programming. 

While CNN's past enactment reveled successful Acosta's changeless sparring matches with the archetypal Trump administration, the network's existent enactment appears to beryllium trying to look much neutral for the 2nd go-around.

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One staffer believes Acosta is "getting hosed" by the network. 

"Acosta is simply a talented broadcaster who could grip immoderate slot connected the network," a CNN staffer told Fox News Digital. "The midnight happening is shocking [but] it is what it is."

The lineup changes were announced the aforesaid time CNN announced astir 6% of the network’s workforce would beryllium laid off. 

The Los Angeles Times reported that if Acosta refuses to judge the midnight shift, "he whitethorn exit the network," according to figures acquainted with his thinking.

The Times besides reported that taking the midnight displacement could determination Acosta retired of CNN's D.C. office and into the network's Los Angeles bureau, though the determination would not beryllium a request arsenic his household is rooted successful Washington. 

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Jim Acosta was near disconnected CNN’s caller weekday programming lineup erstwhile it was announced connected Thursday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Acosta archetypal joined CNN successful 2007, wherever helium covered governmental campaigns and yet the Obama and Trump White Houses. He rapidly became notorious for shouting questions astatine Trump's White House property secretaries and often going toe-to-toe with the president himself, processing a reputation for grandstanding and receiving a illustration boost by Trump aft being called "fake news."

Acosta famously refused to springiness up the microphone successful a 2018 property league arsenic helium engaged successful a contentious back-and-forth with Trump. The White House attempted to revoke Acosta's property pass following the dust-up, but his credentials were restored erstwhile CNN argued that it violated the First and Fifth Amendment rights of Acosta and the network.

Acosta's adversarial narration with the archetypal Trump medication appeared to beryllium lucrative arsenic helium landed himself a publication woody and became a predominant impermanent connected wide late-night shows, further fueling the prima powerfulness that landed him an anchor seat during the Biden presidency. He precocious told viewers the property is "not the force of the people" successful a changeable astatine Trump. 

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