CNN generated confusion on Friday after it announced it would host a GOP debate at a New Hampshire college next month, but the college said it had no knowledge of it.

New Hampshire officials said they had no knowledge of a CNN debate planned in the Granite State next month. Here's the latest.

: An official with Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire said that they were surprised to be named as the venue for CNN’s planned pre-primary debate on Jan. 21. Neal Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics and Political Library at the college,

Two television networks on Thursday announced they would hold separate Republican presidential debates at the same location in New Hampshire just ahead of that state's GOP primary next month, but officials at Saint Anselm College said they were only aware of one of the events.