austin bird sat for coffee on tuesday morning in the town of leclaire , iowa , chatting with hillary clinton as photographers snapped pictures .
news reports called him a ` student ' and her campaign called it an unscripted event .
but clinton 's iowa political director troy price drove bird and two other people to the coffee house .
bird is a hospital government relations official who interned with barack obama 's 2012 presidential campaign .
the iowa democratic party , which price ran until a month ago , tasked him to be joe biden 's driver during an october senate campaign trip in davenport .