By “the people”, she is referring to the lackey butt kissers from the media, who know that she is a liar, but care not.
There's another person just like that, who has his own lackey butt kisser entourage...
You’ll enjoy this one centurion...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/07/hillary-plays-the-victim-in-cnn-interview.html
(What the press has to do, in Clinton-speak, is not to serve as an information resource for the voters she wants to reach, but instead to pepper her with one-sided, irrelevant and exasperating queries that have nothing to do with the will of the people.)